الشركة طلبت الموافقة.

A common Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

esh-sherka talab(it) el-mowāf'a

A few notes:

• الشركة is often pronounced esh-sherka
• طلبت is pronounced something like talabit or talabet, depending on speaker
• الموافقة is often pronounced el-mowāf'a in everyday speech

If you learned Modern Standard Arabic first, you may also hear a more formal pronunciation closer to:

ash-sharika talab-at al-muwāfaqa

Both the spelling and the general meaning stay the same.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال is absorbed into the next consonant. So:

• ال + شركة becomes pronounced roughly esh-sherka

Also, in Egyptian Arabic, the vowels often shift from the more formal sharika to sherka.

So:

• formal-style: ash-sharika
• Egyptian everyday speech: esh-sherka

The -ت marks the past tense feminine singular form of the verb.

The base verb is طلب = to request / to ask for

Since الشركة is grammatically feminine, the verb becomes:

• طلبت = she requested / it requested for a feminine subject

So the sentence uses feminine agreement because company is treated as a feminine noun in Arabic.

Arabic grammatical gender is not the same as biological sex.

Many nouns are simply classified as masculine or feminine as part of the grammar. شركة is feminine, partly because it ends in ة, which is a very common feminine ending.

So even though a company is not literally female, Arabic grammar treats الشركة as feminine, and the verb agrees with it:

• الشركة طلبت
• literally: the company, she requested

In English, we would still usually translate it as the company requested.

الموافقة means approval, agreement, or consent, depending on context.

In this sentence, it is the thing being requested.

So grammatically:

• الشركة = the subject
• طلبت = the verb
• الموافقة = the object

In other words, approval is what the company asked for.

Arabic often uses ال in places where English might or might not use the.

So الموافقة literally looks like the approval, but in English the best translation may still just be approval.

This is normal with abstract nouns and official language. Arabic can sound more definite than English in these situations.

So:

• طلبت الموافقة can naturally mean requested approval
• even though word-for-word it looks like requested the approval

Yes. This is very natural.

The sentence starts with the subject:

• الشركة = the company
• طلبت = requested
• الموافقة = approval

This subject–verb–object order is especially common in Egyptian Arabic.

You could also see verb–subject–object order in Arabic more generally, especially in more formal styles, but for Egyptian speech, starting with the subject is very common and natural.

Because Arabic طلب can take a direct object.

So Arabic says:

• طلبت الموافقة
• literally: requested approval

It does not need a separate word like for here.

This is one of those places where Arabic and English organize the sentence differently.

Yes, in writing, طلبت can be ambiguous if there are no vowel marks.

Depending on context, it could represent forms related to:

• I asked
• you asked
• she/it asked

But here the context makes it clear:

• الشركة comes right before it
• الشركة is feminine singular

So the intended meaning is the company requested

In actual spoken Egyptian Arabic, the pronunciation usually makes the form clearer.

The spelling is compatible with both Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, but it sounds somewhat formal/neutral in writing.

An Egyptian speaker would usually read it with Egyptian pronunciation, such as:

• esh-sherka talab(it) el-mowāf'a

So you can think of it this way:

• the written form is standard-looking
• the spoken pronunciation can be Egyptian

That is very common in Arabic: people often read standard spelling with their local dialect pronunciation.