اختي خدت كارت البنك من الشنطة قبل الشغل.

Because the ending -ي means my.

• أخت / اخت = sister
• أختي / اختي = my sister

In informal Egyptian writing, people often write اختي without the hamza. The more standard spelling is أختي.

This is very common in casual Egyptian writing. People often simplify spellings online or in texts, especially at the beginning of words.

So:

• more standard: أختي
• casual colloquial writing: اختي

Both are understood the same way.

خدت is past tense, so it means took.

In Egyptian Arabic, the verb to take is usually based on ياخد in the present, and in the past you often see forms built on خد.

So here:

• اختي خدت = my sister took

This is the Egyptian colloquial equivalent of more formal Arabic أخذت.

We know because of the subject اختي.

Arabic casual writing usually leaves out short vowels, so a form like خدت can look the same on the page in different contexts. The words around it tell you who did the action.

Here, since the subject is اختي = my sister, the meaning is clearly my sister took.

That is a great question. In Egyptian Arabic, subject + verb + object is very common in everyday speech.

So:

• اختي خدت كارت البنك... = very natural spoken Egyptian

Verb-first word order also exists in Arabic, but in colloquial Egyptian, starting with the subject is extremely normal and often sounds more conversational.

كارت is a very common loanword in Egyptian Arabic, meaning card.

In more formal Arabic, you might see بطاقة instead. But in everyday Egyptian speech, كارت sounds completely natural, especially for things like:

• bank card
• SIM card
• ID-type cards
• transit cards

So كارت البنك is a very normal colloquial phrase.

Because this is a possession-style structure called iḍāfa (construct state).

كارت البنك literally means something like card of the bank. In this structure:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun can be definite
• the whole phrase becomes specific through the second noun

So:

• كارت البنك = the bank card / a bank card, depending on context

That is why كارت appears without ال.

It most naturally means the bank card or a bank card, usually something like an ATM card or debit card.

It does not necessarily mean a card owned by the bank in a strict grammatical sense. In everyday speech, it is just the normal way to refer to a bank card.

من means from or out of, so:

• من الشنطة = from the bag / out of the bag

الشنطة is a very common Egyptian word for:

• bag
• purse
• handbag
• sometimes even a satchel or general carrying bag

So the exact English word depends on context, but bag is a safe basic translation.

Literally, it means before work.

• قبل = before
• الشغل = the work / work / the job

In Egyptian Arabic, الشغل is the everyday word for work or job. It is much more colloquial than العمل, which sounds more formal.

Depending on context, قبل الشغل could mean:

• before going to work
• before work started
• earlier in the day, before the workday

Arabic often leaves that kind of detail to context.

Because ش is a sun letter.

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

• الشنطة is pronounced roughly esh-shanta
• الشغل is pronounced roughly esh-shoghl

You write ال, but you do not pronounce a clear l there.

A rough Egyptian-style pronunciation would be:

okhti khadet kart el-bank men esh-shanta abl esh-shoghl

A few notes:

• اختي ≈ okhti
• خدت ≈ khadet
• الشنطة ≈ esh-shanta
• الشغل ≈ esh-shoghl

Exact vowels can vary a little from speaker to speaker, but that will get you very close.