البنك في اول الشارع، جنب الصيدلية.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be:

el-bank fi awwil ish-shāreʿ, gamb is-seydaleyya.

A rough word-by-word guide:

• البنك → el-bank
• في → fi
• أول الشارع → awwil ish-shāreʿ
• جنب الصيدلية → gamb is-seydaleyya

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• In Egyptian Arabic, ج is usually pronounced like g in go, so جنب sounds like gamb.
• The ال in الشارع and الصيدلية changes in pronunciation because ش and ص are sun letters, so you hear ish-sh... and is-s..., not el-sh... or el-s....

Because Arabic usually leaves out the verb to be in the present tense.

So instead of saying:

• The bank is at the beginning of the street

Arabic simply says:

• The bank at the beginning of the street

This is completely normal. In Egyptian Arabic, present-tense sentences like this often have:

• a topic: البنك
• then information about it: في أول الشارع، جنب الصيدلية

If you wanted past or future, then Arabic would use words equivalent to was or will be.

Here في means in / at and introduces the location.

So:

• البنك في أول الشارع = The bank is at the beginning of the street

Even though في often literally means in, in everyday Arabic it is also commonly used where English would say at.

Literally, أول الشارع means the beginning of the street.

So:

• في أول الشارع = at the beginning of the street

This does not usually mean on the first street.
If you wanted the first street, that would usually be understood differently from context, and often expressed in another way.

Here, أول means beginning / first part, not first street in a sequence.

Because الشارع means the street, not just a street.

Arabic often uses definite nouns when the place is understood from context. So أول الشارع is literally the beginning of the street.

In English, we might sometimes translate more naturally as:

• at the beginning of the street
• down at the start of the street

Even if English sounds slightly less literal, the Arabic is using the definite noun the street.

جنب means next to / beside in Egyptian Arabic.

So:

• جنب الصيدلية = next to the pharmacy

In this kind of sentence, جنب behaves like a location word followed directly by the noun:

• جنب البيت = next to the house
• جنب المدرسة = next to the school

You do not need an extra word like to or of in English. Arabic just places the noun after جنب.

Because the sentence is talking about specific, identifiable places:

• البنك = the bank
• الصيدلية = the pharmacy

In directions and location statements, Arabic often uses the definite form when the place is known or understood from the situation.

So this sentence sounds like someone is telling you where a particular bank is, using another known landmark, the pharmacy.

This is because of sun letters.

When ال comes before certain consonants, the l sound is not pronounced clearly and the next consonant is doubled instead.

So:

• الشارع is pronounced ish-shāreʿ
• الصيدلية is pronounced is-seydaleyya

In writing, nothing changes: you still write ال.
The change is mainly in pronunciation.

This is very important for sounding natural in Arabic.

In careful standard spelling, it is أول with a hamza.

But in everyday typing, especially informal Arabic online, many people leave hamzas out and write:

• اول

So:

• أول الشارع
• اول الشارع

Both are commonly seen, but أول is the more correct standard spelling.

بنك is a borrowed word, ultimately from European languages, and it means bank.

In Egyptian Arabic, many modern institution names are loanwords or partly borrowed forms, for example:

• بنك = bank
• تليفون = telephone
• أسانسير = elevator

So البنك simply means the bank.

Yes, but this order is very natural.

Arabic often starts with the thing being talked about, then gives information about it:

• البنك → the thing we are talking about
• في أول الشارع، جنب الصيدلية → where it is

So this is like:

• As for the bank, it’s at the beginning of the street, next to the pharmacy.

You could hear other word orders in conversation, especially in answers to questions, but this version is straightforward and common.

A very natural Egyptian Arabic question would be:

البنك فين؟
or
فين البنك؟

Both mean:

• Where is the bank?

Then the answer could be:

• البنك في أول الشارع، جنب الصيدلية.

It is very natural in Egyptian Arabic, but it is also easy for speakers of Standard Arabic to understand.

A few points:

• The vocabulary is mostly widely understandable.
• The Egyptian pronunciation is what makes it sound clearly Egyptian in speech.
• In formal Standard Arabic, you might see slightly more formal wording in some contexts, but this sentence itself is simple and broadly understandable.

So for a learner, this is a very useful everyday Egyptian sentence, and it is not far from forms used across Arabic.