الفريق بدا الانقاذ.

A common Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

il-farīʔ badaʔ il-enʔāz

A few notes:

• ال is usually pronounced il or el in Egyptian Arabic.
• فريق is often pronounced farīʔ in Egypt, because ق frequently becomes a glottal stop ʔ.
• إنقاذ is often pronounced more like enʔāz in Egyptian speech, especially because ذ is commonly realized as z.

In more formal, Standard-Arabic-style pronunciation, you may hear something closer to:

al-farīq badaʔ al-inqādh

In careful spelling, بدأ is the standard form for started/began.

So a more standard written version of the sentence would be:

الفريق بدأ الإنقاذ.

Why do you sometimes see بدا instead?

• In informal Arabic writing, people often leave out the hamza.
• So بدأ may be typed as بدا.
• The same thing happens with الإنقاذ, which is often simplified from الإنقاذ to الانقاذ.

One important detail: in Standard Arabic, بدا and بدأ are technically different words:

• بدا = appeared / seemed
• بدأ = started

So the hamza matters in careful writing, even if people sometimes drop it informally.

الإنقاذ is a noun, specifically a verbal noun (called a maṣdar in Arabic).

It means the rescue or rescuing.

So the structure is basically:

• الفريق = the team
• بدأ = began
• الإنقاذ = the rescue / rescuing

That is why the sentence can feel like either:

• The team began the rescue
• The team began rescuing

depending on context.

Because Arabic does not need a separate word here like English to.

With بدأ, Arabic can use:

• a verbal noun: بدأ الإنقاذ = began the rescue / began rescuing
• or another verb: بدأ ينقذ = began to rescue

So Arabic expresses this idea differently from English.
Instead of began to rescue, this sentence uses began + the act of rescue.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, subject–verb–object order is very common:

• الفريق بدأ الإنقاذ = The team began the rescue

This sounds natural in Egyptian.

In more formal or Standard Arabic style, you could also see:

• بدأ الفريق الإنقاذ

That is more verb-first. Both are understandable, but the subject-first order fits Egyptian everyday patterns better.

Because both words are definite:

• الفريق = the team
• الإنقاذ = the rescue

Unlike English, Arabic marks definiteness on each noun directly with الـ.

So if both nouns are definite in meaning, both usually need their own الـ.

Because الفريق is grammatically a singular noun in Arabic, even though it refers to multiple people as a group.

So the verb is singular:

• الفريق بدأ = the team began

This is similar to English when we treat team as one unit:
The team began the rescue.

It is understandable, but it sounds a bit formal or news-like.

Why?

• بدأ is fine, but in casual Egyptian, ابتدى is also very common.
• الإنقاذ is a formal noun, often used in official, written, or media language.

So in everyday Egyptian, you might also hear something like:

• الفريق ابتدى الإنقاذ
• الفريق بدأ ينقذ...
• الفريق ابتدى عملية الإنقاذ = The team began the rescue operation

So the given sentence is not wrong, but it leans more toward formal Egyptian / MSA-influenced Arabic than casual street speech.

Because Egyptian Arabic often changes some consonants compared with Standard Arabic.

In this sentence:

• ق in فريق and إنقاذ is often pronounced as ʔ in many Egyptian accents.
  • فريق → farīʔ
  • إنقاذ → enʔāz
• ذ in إنقاذ is often pronounced as z in Egyptian speech.

So a learner may hear:

• more formal: inqādh
• more Egyptian: enʔāz

Both are connected to the same word, but the exact pronunciation depends on how formal the speaker is being and which variety of Arabic they are using.