الارشيف على الكمبيوتر.

A natural Egyptian-style pronunciation is:

el-arshiif ʿala el-kombyūter

A few notes:

• الـ is usually pronounced el- in Egyptian, not al-
• على is ʿala, and the ʿ shows the sound of ع, which does not exist in English
• In fast speech, على الكمبيوتر often becomes something like ʿal-kombyūter

So in everyday speech, you may hear something close to:

el-arshiif ʿal-kombyūter

Because Arabic often leaves out the present-tense verb to be.

So:

الارشيف على الكمبيوتر
literally looks like: the archive on the computer

but it means:

The archive is on the computer

This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic. In the present tense, nominal sentences usually do not need a separate word for is / am / are.

If you wanted the past, then you would use a verb, for example:

كان الارشيف على الكمبيوتر
The archive was on the computer

This is a very common Arabic pattern:

noun + prepositional phrase

Here:

• الارشيف = the archive
• على الكمبيوتر = on the computer

So the whole sentence is:

The archive is on the computer

In grammar terms, this is a nominal sentence, not a verb sentence.

على usually means on.

In this sentence, it means:

• on the computer
• sometimes more loosely on the computer system or stored on the computer

This is similar to English, where we also say things like:

• It’s on my computer
• The file is on the laptop

So على is a very natural choice here.

Because الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• الارشيف = the archive
• الكمبيوتر = the computer

In Egyptian pronunciation, الـ is usually said as el-.

So even though English only uses the as a separate word, Arabic attaches it to the beginning of the noun.

الارشيف is a borrowed word, not an old native Arabic root word.

A more careful spelling is often:

الأرشيف

with a hamza on أ.

But in informal writing, many people leave that out and write:

الارشيف

So for a learner:

• الأرشيف = more standard/careful spelling
• الارشيف = common informal spelling you may still see

Both refer to the same word.

Yes. الكمبيوتر is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

It is a loanword from English, adapted to Arabic pronunciation and spelling.

You may also see a more formal Standard Arabic word:

الحاسوب

But in Egypt, in everyday speech, كمبيوتر is much more common.

So if you are learning Egyptian Arabic, كمبيوتر is the word you will hear most often.

Sometimes learners want to use في because it means in.

But here, على الكمبيوتر is the more natural choice if you mean something like:

• the archive is on the computer
• the archive is stored on the computer
• the archive is available on the computer

Using في الكمبيوتر can sound more like inside the computer, which may be possible in some contexts, but it is usually less natural for this kind of everyday statement.

So for this sentence, على الكمبيوتر is the safer and more idiomatic choice.

For a negative sentence in Egyptian Arabic, you would usually use مش:

الارشيف مش على الكمبيوتر
The archive is not on the computer

For a yes/no question, you can often just keep the same words and use rising intonation:

الارشيف على الكمبيوتر؟
Is the archive on the computer?

So this sentence is a good example of how simple Arabic nominal sentences can be:

• statement: الارشيف على الكمبيوتر
• negative: الارشيف مش على الكمبيوتر
• question: الارشيف على الكمبيوتر؟