الامتحان اللي بكرة صعب اكتر من امتحان النهارده.

اللي is the Egyptian Arabic relative word for that / which / who.

In الامتحان اللي بكرة, it links الامتحان to the idea بكرة and gives the sense of:

• the exam that is tomorrow
• more naturally in English: tomorrow’s exam or the exam tomorrow

In Egyptian Arabic, اللي is extremely common and does not change for gender or number.

Because in Arabic, the verb to be is usually omitted in the present tense.

So:

• الامتحان اللي بكرة صعب
  literally: the exam that’s tomorrow difficult meaning: the exam tomorrow is difficult

This is normal in both spoken Egyptian and Standard Arabic for present-time statements.

Nothing is missing. In Egyptian Arabic, اللي بكرة is a very natural shortened relative clause.

So:

• الامتحان اللي بكرة = the exam that’s tomorrow / the exam tomorrow

English usually needs more wording, but Arabic can leave the time expression by itself after اللي.

You can think of an understood meaning like:

• the exam that is scheduled for tomorrow

In Egyptian Arabic, a very common way to make comparisons is:

• adjective + أكتر من
• literally: more + adjective than

So:

• صعب أكتر من = more difficult than

In more formal Arabic, you often see:

• أصعب من = harder / more difficult than

Both are understandable, but صعب أكتر من sounds very natural in Egyptian speech.

Egyptian Arabic often has more than one natural way to express something like today’s exam or tomorrow’s exam.

Here the speaker used:

• الامتحان اللي بكرة = the exam that’s tomorrow
• امتحان النهارده = today’s exam

The second one is a kind of possessive/association structure, almost like:

• exam of today

So the sentence mixes two perfectly normal colloquial patterns.

Yes. In a phrase like امتحان النهارده, the whole expression is understood as definite: today’s exam.

This works similarly to noun combinations in Arabic where the first noun may not take الـ, but the whole phrase can still be definite because of what follows.

So:

• امتحان النهارده = not just an exam today
• it means the exam of today / today’s exam

Yes. النهارده means today and is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

A few useful Egyptian time words:

• بكرة = tomorrow
• النهارده = today
• امبارح = yesterday

Using بكرة and النهارده is one clear sign that this sentence is Egyptian colloquial, not formal Standard Arabic.

A more Standard Arabic version would be something like:

• امتحان الغد أصعب من امتحان اليوم

That means the same thing: Tomorrow’s exam is harder than today’s exam.

The original sentence sounds Egyptian because of words and structures like:

• اللي
• بكرة
• النهارده
• صعب أكتر من

Yes, very often you can.

• امتحان بكرة = tomorrow’s exam / the exam tomorrow
• الامتحان اللي بكرة = the exam that’s tomorrow

The version with اللي can sound a bit more specific or slightly more explicit, but both are natural in Egyptian Arabic.

Because امتحان is a masculine noun, so the adjective also stays masculine:

• امتحان صعب = a difficult exam

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would usually be feminine too.

So the agreement here is normal:

• الامتحان ... صعب

A rough breakdown is:

• الامتحان = the exam
• اللي = that / which
• بكرة = tomorrow
• صعب = difficult
• اكتر من = more than
• امتحان = exam
• النهارده = today

So very literally:

• The exam that’s tomorrow [is] difficult more than the exam of today

Natural English:

• Tomorrow’s exam is harder than today’s exam.

A simple pronunciation guide is:

el-emteḥān elli bokra saʿb aktar men emteḥān ennaharda

Notes:

• الـ often sounds like el-
• اللي is usually pronounced elli
• بكرة sounds like bokra
• من often sounds like men in Egyptian speech
• النهارده is commonly pronounced ennaharda

The ʿ in saʿb represents the Arabic letter ع, which is a sound English doesn’t really have.