الفريق اشتغل بقوة.

A common Egyptian pronunciation is:

el-faree’ eshteghal be’owwa

A rough stress guide:

el-fa-REE’ esh-te-GHAL be-’OW-wa

Notes:

• الفريق = el-faree’
• اشتغل = eshteghal
• بقوة = be’owwa

The ’ represents a glottal stop, the little catch in the throat.

Because the verb اشتغل already contains the past tense meaning worked.

In Egyptian Arabic, you usually do not need a separate helping verb like English did.
So:

• اشتغل = he/it worked
• الفريق اشتغل = the team worked

The tense is built into the verb itself.

Here, اشتغل means worked or put in work.

It is a very common Egyptian verb meaning:

• to work
• to be working
• sometimes to function / operate, depending on context

So with الفريق, it clearly means the team worked or performed work/effortfully.

The root is ش غ ل.

This root is connected with ideas like:

• work
• occupation
• being busy

If you have studied verb patterns, اشتغل is a derived form of that root. In everyday Egyptian, it is one of the most common ways to say to work.

Related words include:

• شغل = work, stuff, things, occupation
• مشغول = busy

Because الفريق is grammatically singular.

Even though a team is made up of many people, the noun الفريق itself is a singular noun meaning the team. So the verb is singular too:

• الفريق اشتغل = the team worked

This is similar to English, where many speakers also say the team was... rather than the team were...

Yes. الفريق اشتغل بقوة is a very normal word order.

It is:

subject + verb + phrase

So:

• الفريق = the team
• اشتغل = worked
• بقوة = strongly / hard

This order is very natural in Egyptian speech.
You may also see verb-first order in Arabic, but this subject-first order is extremely common in everyday Egyptian.

Literally, بقوة means with strength or with force.

But in natural English, depending on context, it can mean:

• hard
• strongly
• powerfully
• with a lot of effort/energy

So in this sentence, it does not necessarily mean physical force only. It often suggests strong effort or intensity.

The بـ here is the preposition with / by.

So:

• قوة = strength, force
• بقوة = with strength / strongly

Arabic often uses a preposition + noun phrase where English might use an adverb.
So instead of a single adverb like strongly, Arabic can say بقوة.

Two important pronunciation points:

1. ال is usually pronounced el- in Egyptian speech, not al-.
   So الفريق sounds like el-faree’.

2. ق in many Egyptian accents, especially Cairene, is pronounced as a glottal stop ’ rather than q.
   So:

   • فريق becomes faree’
   • قوة becomes ’owwa

Also, the ال in الفريق does not assimilate, because ف is a moon letter, not a sun letter.

A common Egyptian negation is:

الفريق ما اشتغلش بقوة

This uses the Egyptian pattern ما ... ش around the verb.

So:

• اشتغل = worked
• ما اشتغلش = did not work

A natural pronunciation would be:

el-faree’ ma-shteghalsh be’owwa

The spelling can stay the same, but the pronunciation changes.

In MSA, it would be pronounced more like:

al-fareeq ishtaghala bi-quwwa

Main differences:

• ال is al-, not el-
• ق is pronounced q, not a glottal stop
• final case endings may appear in fully formal pronunciation

So the Egyptian sentence is very close in writing to MSA, but it sounds clearly Egyptian when spoken.