ماما وصلت الشغل متاخر امبارح.

A common Egyptian Arabic pronunciation would be:

mama wiṣlit ish-shoghl metaʔkhar embāriḥ

A few notes:

• وصلت is often pronounced wiṣlit or something close to weṣlet, depending on the speaker.
• الشغل is written with ال but pronounced ish-shoghl / esh-shoghl because of assimilation before ش.
• متاخر is more standardly spelled متأخر, with a hamza.
• امبارح is often pronounced embāriḥ or imbāreḥ.

ماما is completely normal in Egyptian Arabic. It is very commonly used in everyday speech to mean mom / mum.

It is more colloquial and personal than أمي (my mother), which sounds more formal or literary. So in a casual Egyptian sentence, ماما fits very naturally.

Because the subject is feminine: ماما.

In the past tense, Egyptian Arabic marks she on the verb with -ت:

• وصل = he arrived
• وصلت = she arrived

So ماما وصلت means Mom arrived / got there.

Because Arabic verbs already show the subject.

In English, you usually need she arrived. In Arabic, وصلت already tells you she arrived, so a separate pronoun like هي is not necessary.

If you do say هي, it is usually for emphasis or contrast:

• هي وصلت = she arrived / she did arrive

In your sentence, ماما is already the subject, and وصلت matches it, so nothing else is needed.

In Egyptian Arabic, وصل can often take the destination directly:

• وصلت الشغل = she got to work / arrived at work

English needs a preposition such as to or at, but Egyptian Arabic often does not here.

You may also hear forms with a preposition in some contexts, but وصلت الشغل is a very natural colloquial way to say it.

Here الشغل means work, but in this sentence it really means the workplace / the job location.

So وصلت الشغل is not just she arrived work word-for-word; it means she arrived at work or she got to work.

In Egyptian Arabic, الشغل is a very common everyday word for:

• work
• job
• the place where you work

The exact meaning depends on context.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound assimilates into the next consonant. So:

• الشغل is written with ال
• but pronounced more like ish-shoghl or esh-shoghl

You will hear the sh sound doubled.

This is a very common feature in Arabic pronunciation.

This is a great question, because learners often expect full agreement with ماما.

In Egyptian Arabic, words like متأخر can behave a bit like adverbs in sentences such as arrived late. In that use, speakers very often use the basic masculine singular form:

• وصلت متأخر = she arrived late

So here متاخر / متأخر works like late, not so much like a full descriptive adjective that has to match mom exactly.

That said, you may also hear متأخرة from some speakers, especially when the word feels more clearly adjectival. But متأخر in this kind of sentence is very normal in colloquial Egyptian.

امبارح means yesterday.

Yes, its position is flexible. In your sentence it comes at the end, which is very natural:

• ماما وصلت الشغل متاخر امبارح

But Egyptian Arabic can also move time words earlier, for example:

• امبارح ماما وصلت الشغل متاخر
• ماما امبارح وصلت الشغل متاخر

All of these are understandable. The end position is just a common, natural place for it.

No, Arabic word order is more flexible than English word order.

Your sentence starts with the subject:

• ماما وصلت...

That is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

Other arrangements are possible, especially if you want to emphasize time or another part of the sentence. But the version you have is a very ordinary conversational pattern.

So the main thing to remember is:

• English is usually stricter about word order.
• Egyptian Arabic often lets you move parts around for emphasis, topic, or rhythm.

It is clearly Egyptian colloquial Arabic.

Signs of that include:

• ماما instead of a more formal أمي
• الشغل instead of العمل
• امبارح instead of أمس
• the overall casual sentence structure

A more formal MSA-style version would be something like:

وصلت أمي إلى العمل متأخرة أمس

So your original sentence is exactly the kind of thing you would expect in everyday Egyptian speech.

Because colloquial Arabic spelling online and in informal writing is often not fully standardized.

More standard spelling would be:

• متأخر

But many people casually write:

• متاخر

The same thing happens with other words in dialect writing. People often simplify spelling because they are writing informally, quickly, or in a way that reflects speech more than formal orthography.

So as a learner, it is good to recognize both:

• متأخر = more standard spelling
• متاخر = very common informal spelling