الاغنية اللي على التليفون اسوا من الاغنية اللي في الفيلم.

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

It appears twice because the sentence has two separate noun phrases being described:

• الاغنية اللي على التليفون = the song that is on the phone
• الاغنية اللي في الفيلم = the song that is in the movie

A useful thing to know is that in Egyptian Arabic, اللي is used for all genders and numbers. Unlike Modern Standard Arabic, you do not have to change it depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine, singular, or plural.

Because Arabic commonly leaves out the present-tense verb to be.

So in a sentence like this:

• الاغنية ... اسوا من ...

the meaning is understood as:

• The song ... is worse than ...

This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic for present-tense descriptive sentences.

If you wanted a past meaning, you would usually add a verb like كان:

• كانت الاغنية ... اسوا من ... = The song was worse than ...

اسوا means worse, and من means than after a comparative.

So:

• اسوا من = worse than

This is the normal Arabic pattern for comparisons:

• احسن من = better than
• اكبر من = bigger than
• اصغر من = smaller than

So the structure here is:

• X اسوا من Y = X is worse than Y

Because comparative forms like اسوا usually stay in a fixed form in this kind of sentence.

Even though الاغنية is feminine, you still say:

• الاغنية اسوا not
• الاغنية سُوأى or some regular feminine adjective form

This is similar to how Arabic comparative/elative forms often behave: they are not treated like ordinary adjectives that always show clear gender agreement in everyday usage.

Because على is often used in Egyptian Arabic for things that are on a device, medium, or platform.

So على التليفون can mean something like:

• on the phone
• playing on the phone
• heard on the phone

This is quite similar to English, where we also say:

• on the phone
• on TV
• on the internet

By contrast, في التليفون would more naturally suggest something inside the phone, not just playing or appearing on it.

Because the prepositions are idiomatic and depend on the noun.

• في الفيلم = in the movie
• على التليفون = on the phone

A movie is thought of as something you are in or within, while a phone is treated more like a device or surface/platform you access something on.

This is one of those areas where it is best to learn the whole phrase, not just the individual preposition by itself.

Because both nouns are definite: the song and the song.

The sentence is not comparing songs in general. It is comparing two specific songs, each identified by a relative clause:

• the song that is on the phone
• the song that is in the movie

So using الـ makes sense in both cases.

Also, in Arabic, relative clauses with اللي often come after a definite noun very naturally:

• الولد اللي هناك = the boy who is over there
• البنت اللي بتتكلم = the girl who is speaking

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Some clues are:

• اللي instead of Standard Arabic التي / الذي
• التليفون, a common colloquial borrowing for telephone
• informal spelling like اسوا instead of the more standard أسوأ

A more Standard Arabic version might look more like:

• الأغنية التي على الهاتف أسوأ من الأغنية التي في الفيلم

That said, real-life speech in Egypt would much more naturally use the original version.

Yes. The standard spelling is أسوأ.

In informal writing, especially in dialect, people very often simplify spelling and write:

• اسوا

instead of:

• أسوأ

So this is mostly a spelling issue, not a different word. In everyday texting or casual online writing, this kind of simplification is very common.

A rough Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

il-oġneya illi ʿala t-telefōn aswa min il-oġneya illi fil-film

A few pronunciation notes:

• الاغنية is commonly pronounced something like il-oġneya
• اللي sounds like illi
• في الفيلم is often heard as fil-film
• التليفون sounds like et-telefōn or, in connected speech after a preposition, something close to t-telefōn

You do not need to pronounce it exactly this way at first; the main goal is to recognize the rhythm and the common Egyptian forms.

The structure is:

• [noun phrase] + [comparative] + من + [noun phrase]

More specifically:

• الاغنية اللي على التليفون = subject
• اسوا = comparative adjective
• من = than
• الاغنية اللي في الفيلم = thing being compared to

So the full pattern is:

• The song that is on the phone
  • is worse than
    • the song that is in the movie

This is a very useful pattern you can reuse with many adjectives:

• الفيلم ده احسن من الفيلم التاني = This movie is better than the other movie
• النسخة دي اوضح من النسخة القديمة = This version is clearer than the old version