راجع مفردات المرتب قبل الموافقة المبدئية.

It is mostly formal Arabic, the kind of language you would absolutely see in Egypt in HR, business, or administrative writing.

A few clues:

• المرتب for salary is very common in Egyptian Arabic.
• الموافقة المبدئية sounds quite formal/standard, not very conversational.

So a learner of Egyptian should think of this as formal written Arabic used in Egypt, rather than casual street Egyptian.

A more everyday Egyptian-style version might be:

• راجع تفاصيل المرتب قبل ما توافق مبدئيًا
• or بص على مفردات المرتب قبل ما توافق

depending on tone.

Here it is understood as a command: Review / Check.

This is a very common source of confusion, because without vowel marks, راجع can look the same in writing for different forms.

In this sentence, it is read as an imperative because:

• there is no subject written,
• the sentence has the feel of an instruction,
• and it is followed directly by the thing to be reviewed: مفردات المرتب.

So the intended reading is:

• راجع ... = Review ... / Check ...

not

• he reviewed ...

By default, راجع is the masculine singular imperative.

So literally, it is like saying to one male person:

• Review the salary details...

But in Arabic instructions, the masculine singular is often used generically, especially in signs, workplace instructions, forms, and written notices. So it may simply mean:

• Please review...
• Review...

If you wanted other forms:

• راجعي = said to one woman
• راجعوا = said to a group

In this sentence, it means review / check / go over.

That matters because English speakers often connect it with the root idea of returning. The root is related, but in actual usage:

• راجع often means review, check, consult, or re-examine
• ارجع is the more direct everyday verb for go back / come back

So here, راجع مفردات المرتب means:

• review the salary details
• not go back to the salary details

Great question. مفردات often does mean vocabulary items / words, especially in language-learning contexts.

But the basic idea of مفردات is individual items or separate elements.

So in مفردات المرتب, it means something like:

• salary items
• salary breakdown
• salary details
• pay components

In other words, this is not about language vocabulary at all. It is using the broader sense of individual listed items.

In HR and administrative language, مفردات المرتب is a normal expression for a salary statement / salary breakdown / payslip details.

Because this is an iḍāfa construction, often called a possessive/genitive construction.

Structure:

• مفردات = details/items
• المرتب = the salary

Together:

• مفردات المرتب = the details of the salary / salary details

Important rule: In an iḍāfa construction, the first noun usually does not take ال. The second noun carries the definiteness.

So:

• مفردات المرتب = correct
• المفردات المرتب = not the normal structure here

Even though مفردات has no ال, the whole phrase is still definite because المرتب is definite.

Both relate to salary, but they differ by register and regional preference.

• الراتب is the more typical Modern Standard Arabic word for salary
• المرتب is very common in Egyptian Arabic

So in Egypt, especially in everyday use, المرتب sounds very natural.

Examples:

• مرتبك كام؟ = How much is your salary? in Egyptian
• In more formal Standard Arabic, you are more likely to see الراتب

So this sentence is a nice example of wording that feels Egypt-based, even though the full sentence is fairly formal.

Because الموافقة is a feminine noun, and adjectives in Arabic must agree with the noun they describe.

So:

• الموافقة = the approval / agreement
• المبدئية = preliminary / initial, feminine form

The masculine form would be:

• مبدئي

The feminine form is:

• مبدئية

So the agreement is perfectly regular:

• الموافقة المبدئية = the preliminary approval

Because Arabic, especially formal Arabic, often prefers a verbal noun (masdar) where English might use a full clause.

So:

• قبل الموافقة المبدئية literally looks like before the preliminary approval
• but in natural English it often corresponds to:
  • before giving preliminary approval
  • before approving initially
  • before the initial approval

This kind of noun-based style is very common in formal Arabic writing.

A more colloquial Egyptian version would more likely use a verb:

• قبل ما توافق مبدئيًا

So the sentence sounds formal, concise, and administrative.

It sounds natural in a formal workplace or HR context, but not especially casual.

The words that make it feel formal are things like:

• راجع in an instruction-style written command
• مفردات المرتب
• الموافقة المبدئية

This sounds like something you might see in:

• an HR email
• a company portal
• an onboarding document
• a payroll/approval workflow

In everyday spoken Egyptian, people would usually simplify it a bit.

A few more colloquial possibilities are:

• راجع تفاصيل المرتب قبل ما توافق
• بص على مفردات المرتب قبل ما توافق
• اتأكد من مفردات المرتب قبل ما توافق

Nuance:

• راجع = review
• بص على = look at
• اتأكد من = make sure of / verify

So if you want something that sounds more spoken and less administrative, one of those would often fit better.

A reasonable Egyptian-oriented pronunciation would be:

rāgiʿ mofradāt el-morattab ʔabl el-mowāfa'a el-mabda'iyya

A few notes:

• راجع → rāgiʿ
• مفردات → mofradāt
• المرتب → el-morattab
• قبل → ʔabl or abl
• الموافقة → el-mowāfa'a
• المبدئية → el-mabda'iyya

You do not need to pronounce it in a fully classical way if you are learning Egyptian. In Egypt, people often read formal text with a mix of standard vocabulary and Egyptian pronunciation, which is exactly the kind of sentence this is.