انا رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح.

In Egyptian Arabic, رحت already tells you the subject is I because the verb ending -ت marks I in the past tense.

So the sentence could simply be:

• رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح.

Adding انا makes the subject more explicit. It can sound:

• natural,
• slightly clearer,
• sometimes a bit more emphatic.

So both are possible, but انا is not strictly necessary.

رحت is the past-tense form of the verb راح / يروح in Egyptian Arabic, which means to go.

• راح = he went
• رحت = I went / you went, depending on context
• رحتُ in Modern Standard Arabic would be the formal equivalent, but in Egyptian it is usually just رحت

The pronoun usually makes it clear who is meant:

• انا رحت = I went
• انتَ رحت = you went (to a male)
• انتِ رحتي = you went (to a female)

In Egyptian Arabic, after verbs of movement like go, the destination is often stated directly without a separate word matching English to.

So:

• رحت مطعم = literally something like I went restaurant
• natural English: I went to a restaurant

This is normal Arabic usage. You do not need a separate word equivalent to to here.

Because مطعم without الـ usually means a restaurant, not the restaurant.

• مطعم = a restaurant
• المطعم = the restaurant

So:

• رحت مطعم = I went to a restaurant
• رحت المطعم = I went to the restaurant

If the meaning shown to the learner is a restaurant, then the lack of الـ is exactly what you would expect.

رحت مطعم is a normal Egyptian Arabic way to say I went to a restaurant.

You may also hear other patterns in different contexts or styles, but in everyday Egyptian speech, dropping a separate to-word with places after راح is very common.

So for a learner, رحت مطعم is a good, useful pattern to remember.

مع means with.

So:

• مع ماما = with Mom

Unlike English, Arabic does not use capitalization, and there is no special case ending here in normal Egyptian writing. You simply put the noun or pronoun after مع:

• مع ماما = with Mom
• مع صاحبي = with my friend
• معاهم = with them

So in this sentence, مع ماما is a straightforward prepositional phrase.

In Egyptian Arabic, ماما is very common in everyday speech for Mom / Mum / Mommy, and adults often use it too when speaking casually.

There are several ways to say my mother / my mom, for example:

• ماما = Mom / my mom in everyday family speech
• أمي = my mother, more formal or more Standard-Arabic-like
• أمّي may be understood, but in Egyptian conversation ماما is extremely common

So مع ماما sounds natural and conversational.

Words like ماما and بابا often already imply a personal family relationship in context. In everyday speech, ماما usually means my mom unless the context says otherwise.

So:

• مع ماما naturally means with Mom / with my mom

If needed, speakers can make possession more explicit in other ways, but in a sentence like this, ماما by itself is very natural.

Yes, امبارح means yesterday, and putting it at the end is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

This sentence order is very common:

• انا رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح.

But امبارح can also appear earlier:

• انا امبارح رحت مطعم مع ماما.
• امبارح انا رحت مطعم مع ماما.

The meaning stays the same, but the emphasis changes slightly.

• End position often sounds neutral and natural.
• Earlier position can emphasize the time more.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

• ana ro7t maT3am ma3 mama embaare7

A more natural breakdown:

• انا = ana
• رحت = roḥt or ruḥt depending on speaker
• مطعم = maṭʿam
• مع = maʿa / ma3
• ماما = mama
• امبارح = embaareḥ / إمبارح

A few sounds to notice:

• ح in رحت is a strong breathy h
• ط in مطعم is a heavier t
• ع in مع and مطعم is a deep throat sound that English does not have
• the final ح in امبارح is again that breathy ḥ sound

Very roughly, the sentence is:

• انا = I
• رحت = went
• مطعم = restaurant / a restaurant
• مع ماما = with Mom
• امبارح = yesterday

So the order is basically:

• I went restaurant with Mom yesterday

That is why the natural English translation needs a little adjustment:

• I went to a restaurant with Mom yesterday.

Arabic and English do not always organize destinations and time expressions in exactly the same way.

Yes. In informal Arabic writing, especially online, spelling can vary a bit.

You may see:

• انا or أنا
• امبارح or إمبارح

The version with hamza marks, like أنا and إمبارح, is more careful orthography. But many people omit those marks in casual writing.

Both are very common, especially in Egyptian Arabic texting and informal writing.

Yes. You can say:

• رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح.

That is perfectly natural and often very common in Arabic.

Including انا gives:

• انا رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح.

Both are correct. The version with انا can feel a little more explicit or slightly more emphatic, while the version without it is often more streamlined.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic in style.

The strongest clue is امبارح, which is the everyday Egyptian word for yesterday. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would normally say أمس.

Also, the overall phrasing is conversational and Egyptian:

• انا رحت مطعم مع ماما امبارح. = natural spoken Egyptian

A more formal Standard Arabic version would look different in vocabulary and style.

This sentence is useful because it shows several very common Egyptian patterns:

• Past tense verb + optional pronoun

  • (انا) رحت = (I) went

• Destination without an extra word for English “to”

  • رحت مطعم = I went to a restaurant

• Preposition

  • مع ماما = with Mom

• Time expression

  • امبارح = yesterday

So as a model, you can build similar sentences like:

• انا رحت الشغل امبارح. = I went to work yesterday.
• رحت السينما مع صحابي. = I went to the cinema with my friends.
• امبارح رحت كافيه. = Yesterday I went to a café.