الكم جنب الياقة.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is el-komm gamb el-ya'a.

A few useful sound notes:

• الـ is often pronounced el- or il-
• ج in Egyptian Arabic is usually g, not j
• ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop ', so ياقة sounds like ya'a
• الكم has a doubled m sound: komm

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like el-komm gamb el-ya'a.

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

So الكم جنب الياقة literally looks like:

• the sleeve
• next to the collar

But the natural English meaning is The sleeve is next to the collar.

This is completely normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.
If you wanted a past meaning, then a verb would appear, for example: كان = was.

جنب here means next to, beside, or by.

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, it is very commonly used to show location:

• جنب الباب = next to the door
• جنب البيت = beside the house

It originally relates to the idea of side, so the phrase is very close to at the side of the collar.

Two Egyptian pronunciation changes are happening:

• ج becomes g
• The n sound before b often sounds like m

So:

• underlying form: janb
• Egyptian pronunciation: gamb

This is very normal in speech, and you will hear gamb all the time in Egyptian Arabic.

Here الكم means the sleeve.

More specifically, the basic noun is كُمّ. In writing, the shadda on the last م is often omitted in everyday text, but the word is still understood as kumm/komm.

A beginner might confuse it with كم meaning how much/how many, but here the context makes it clear that it is the clothing word sleeve.

Because both nouns are definite:

• الكم = the sleeve
• الياقة = the collar

That sounds natural when talking about specific parts of a shirt, jacket, or picture. Arabic often uses the definite article this way when the items are already known from context.

In Egyptian Arabic, الياقة is commonly pronounced el-ya'a or il-ya'a.

The important point is that ق usually becomes a glottal stop in Egyptian speech. So instead of a strong q sound, you get a small pause-like sound:

• Standard-style pronunciation: yāqa
• Egyptian-style pronunciation: ya'a

Also, the الـ does not merge into the ي, because ي is not a sun letter.

Yes. This is a very normal Arabic structure.

The sentence is:

• الكم = the topic / subject
• جنب الياقة = the location phrase

So the pattern is basically:

[thing] + [location]

This is a very common way to make simple descriptive sentences in Arabic.

The written form is close enough that an Arabic speaker would understand it, but it sounds especially Egyptian in pronunciation and usage.

What makes it feel Egyptian:

• ج pronounced as g
• ق pronounced as a glottal stop
• everyday use of جنب / gamb for next to
• no case endings in speech

In more formal Standard Arabic, you would hear more formal pronunciation, and sometimes a phrase like بجانب is preferred for next to.

Yes, but it does not change anything visible in this sentence.

• الكم is masculine
• الياقة is feminine, which you can often guess from the ة

Gender becomes important when you add adjectives or verbs. For example:

• الكم واسع = the sleeve is wide
• الياقة واسعة = the collar is wide

So even though this sentence itself does not show much gender agreement, the nouns do still have gender.