عندي وقت اقل النهارده، ومش هاقرا الرسالة اللي على التليفون.

In Egyptian Arabic, possession is often expressed with عند plus a pronoun suffix.

• عند = at / with
• -ي = my / me

So عندي literally means something like with me or at me, and that is how Arabic says I have in many situations.

Examples:

• عندي وقت = I have time
• عندي عربية = I have a car

So this is completely normal Arabic structure, not a word-for-word match with English.

Because in Arabic, adjectives normally come after the noun they describe.

So:

• وقت أقل = less time

Not:

• أقل وقت in this sentence

This is one of the biggest word-order differences from English.

Also, أقل here works like less / lesser. If you were making an explicit comparison, you would often add من:

• عندي وقت أقل من امبارح = I have less time than yesterday

But in your sentence, the comparison is just understood from context, so من is not necessary.

Yes, in more careful spelling it would normally be أقل.

In informal Egyptian writing, people often:

• drop hamzas
• simplify spelling
• write words the way they speak quickly online

So اقل is a very common casual spelling of أقل.

This happens a lot in chats, texts, and social media.

النهارده means today in Egyptian Arabic.

It is very commonly analyzed as:

• النهار = the day / daytime
• ده = this

So historically it is like this day.

You may also see it written:

• النهاردة
• النهار ده

All of these are common in Egyptian writing. The pronunciation and meaning are basically the same.

In Egyptian Arabic, the future is commonly made with the prefix هَـ or حَـ.

So:

• أقرا = I read / I will read, depending on context in informal writing
• هاقرا = I will read
• حاقرا = same idea, different spelling convention

So هاقرا means I will read.

This is the Egyptian equivalent of using a future marker. It is much more natural in Egyptian than using MSA-style سـ or سوف.

Because بـ and هَـ / حَـ do different jobs.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بـ often marks present/habitual actions
• هَـ / حَـ marks the future

So:

• باقرا = I read / I am reading
• هاقرا = I will read

You do not normally combine them here. Once the future marker is there, the بـ drops.

In Egyptian Arabic, future expressions are very commonly negated with مش.

So:

• مش هاقرا = I will not read

This is the most natural pattern here.

By contrast, ما...ش is very common with present and past verbs:

• ما بقراش = I do not read / I am not reading
• ما قريتش = I did not read

So a learner should get used to:

• مش + future
• ما...ش often with present/past

It is usually pronounced roughly haʔra.

A few useful points:

• The letter ق in Cairene Egyptian is often pronounced as a glottal stop ʔ
• So قرا sounds like ʔra
• هاقرا becomes roughly haʔra

So even though it is written with ق, many Egyptians do not pronounce a hard q sound there.

اللي is the Egyptian relative word meaning that, which, or who.

In this sentence:

• الرسالة اللي على التليفون = the message that is on the phone

A very important point: اللي does not change for gender or number.

So the same اللي can mean:

• who
• which
• that

depending on the context.

This makes Egyptian simpler than English in some ways.

Yes. على literally means on, and here it works very much like English on the phone.

So:

• الرسالة اللي على التليفون = the message on the phone

This is a very natural way to talk about something appearing on a device.

Depending on context, Egyptians might also use other prepositions in other expressions, but على التليفون is very normal for something shown or found on the phone.

It can mean either, depending on context.

• رسالة can mean a message in general
• It can be a written letter
• It can also be a text / message on a phone

In this sentence, because of على التليفون, the meaning is most naturally message or text message, not a physical letter.

Two things are happening:

1. التليفون is a borrowed word, from telephone
2. The الـ article changes in pronunciation before certain letters

Because ت is a sun letter, الـ assimilates, so:

• التليفون is pronounced more like et-tilifōn, not al-tilifōn

The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

The same thing happens in:

• الرسالة → pronounced er-risāla
• النهارده → often pronounced ennaharda

A common Egyptian-style pronunciation would be roughly:

ʿandī وقت أقلّ ennaharda, w mish haʔra er-risāla illī ʿala et-tilifōn

A more learner-friendly breakdown:

• عندي = ʿandī
• وقت أقل = waʔt aʔall
• النهارده = ennaharda
• ومش = w mish
• هاقرا = haʔra
• الرسالة = er-risāla
• اللي = illī
• على التليفون = ʿala et-tilifōn

If you want to sound natural, pay special attention to:

• dropped or weakened hamzas in fast speech
• ق often sounding like ʔ
• the article الـ assimilating before sun letters like ر and ت

Because this sentence is in Egyptian Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

In everyday spoken Egyptian:

• case endings are not used
• words are written more phonetically or informally
• grammar is simpler in several ways than MSA

That is why the sentence looks and sounds more like natural speech than textbook Standard Arabic. This is exactly what you should expect in Egyptian dialect writing.