راجع مفردات المرتب قبل الموافقة المبدئية.

Review the salary statement before preliminary approval.

Breakdown of راجع مفردات المرتب قبل الموافقة المبدئية.

• قبل: before
• يراجع: to review; check
• مفردات المرتب: the salary statement

Questions & Answers about راجع مفردات المرتب قبل الموافقة المبدئية.

Is this sentence actually Egyptian Arabic, or is it Modern Standard Arabic?

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.

Is راجع here a command or a past-tense verb?

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 ...

Who is the command راجع addressed to?