انا عطشان وعايز اشرب ميه باردة.

A natural pronunciation is:

ana ʿaṭshān wi-ʿāyez ashrab mayya bārda

A more learner-friendly version:

ana atshan wi-‘aayez ashrab mayya barda

A few notes:

• انا = ana
• عطشان = ʿaṭshān → the first sound is the Arabic letter ع, which has no exact English equivalent
• و = wi here, meaning and
• عايز = ʿāyez
• اشرب = ashrab
• ميه = mayya
• باردة = bārda

In fast Egyptian speech, the whole sentence flows together smoothly: ana ʿaṭshān wi ʿāyez ashrab mayya bārda

Because Arabic usually does not use a present-tense verb equivalent to am / is / are in simple sentences like this.

So:

• انا عطشان literally looks like I thirsty
• but it means I am thirsty

This is completely normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Compare:

• انا تعبان = I’m tired
• هي كويسة = She’s fine
• احنا جاهزين = We’re ready

So the missing am is not actually missing in Arabic grammar—it just isn’t said in the present tense.

عطشان means thirsty.

Yes, it changes with gender:

• عطشان = used by a male speaker
• عطشانة = used by a female speaker

So:

• A man says: انا عطشان
• A woman says: انا عطشانة

This is very common with adjectives in Arabic.

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

In Egyptian Arabic:

• عايز = want
• أريد is more formal/Standard Arabic and is not what people usually say in everyday Egyptian conversation

Common Egyptian forms:

• عايز = masculine singular
• عايزة = feminine singular
• عايزين = plural

Examples:

• انا عايز آكل = I want to eat
• انا عايزة أنام = I want to sleep

So عايز is the natural everyday Egyptian choice.

In Egyptian Arabic, after عايز you usually just put the verb directly.

So:

• عايز اشرب = want drink literally
• but it means want to drink

English needs to, but Egyptian Arabic does not here.

This pattern is very common:

• عايز أروح = I want to go
• عايز أنام = I want to sleep
• عايز أتكلم = I want to speak

So even though the English translation has to, Arabic does not need a separate word for it in this structure.

Great question. In Egyptian Arabic, بـ often marks the habitual or regular present tense:

• بشرب = I drink / I usually drink / I am drinking, depending on context

But after عايز (want), you normally use the plain verb form without بـ:

• عايز اشرب = I want to drink
• not usually عايز بشرب

So here:

• اشرب is the correct form after عايز

This is an important Egyptian pattern:

• عايز أكل = I want to eat
• عايز أروح = I want to go
• عايز أشوفه = I want to see him

Yes. ميه means water, and it is the everyday Egyptian Arabic word.

Compare:

• ميه = Egyptian Arabic, everyday speech
• ماء = Modern Standard Arabic / formal

A native Egyptian speaker would normally say ميه in conversation.

Also, you may see it written as:

• ميه
• مية
• ميّه

These are spelling variations used in informal writing for dialect. They all represent the Egyptian word mayya.

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

So:

• ميه باردة = water cold literally
• but it means cold water

This is the normal Arabic word order:

• بنت جميلة = beautiful girl
• بيت كبير = big house
• قهوة سخنة = hot coffee

So ميه باردة is exactly what you should expect in Arabic.

Because the adjective has to agree with the noun it describes.

Here:

• ميه is treated as feminine
• so the adjective must also be feminine

That is why you get:

• ميه باردة = cold water

Not:

• ميه بارد

This kind of agreement is very common in Arabic:

• بنت جميلة = a beautiful girl
• عربية سريعة = a fast car
• قهوة سخنة = hot coffee

The ـة ending is a common feminine marker.

In Modern Standard Arabic, و is often described as wa for and.

But in Egyptian Arabic, it is very often pronounced more like:

• wi or sometimes
• we

So in this sentence:

• وعايز is naturally pronounced something like wi-ʿāyez

That is why the sentence often sounds like: ana ʿaṭshān wi-ʿāyez ashrab mayya bārda

This is a normal Egyptian pronunciation feature.

The letter ع is one of the sounds English speakers usually find hardest.

It is a deep throat sound, and there is no exact English equivalent.

In this sentence it appears in:

• عطشان
• عايز

A few tips:

• Don’t replace it with a strong English a if you can help it
• Don’t make it exactly like a glottal stop either
• Try to make a voiced constriction in the throat

For beginners, it is okay at first to use a light placeholder sound while training your ear, but you should keep listening to native audio and improve gradually.

A rough learner pronunciation:

• atshan
• aayez

A better approximation:

• ʿatshān
• ʿāyez

Only the words that agree with the speaker’s gender would change.

A woman would usually say:

انا عطشانة وعايزة اشرب ميه باردة.

Changes:

• عطشان → عطشانة
• عايز → عايزة

The rest stays the same:

• اشرب
• ميه
• باردة

So:

• male speaker: انا عطشان وعايز اشرب ميه باردة
• female speaker: انا عطشانة وعايزة اشرب ميه باردة

Yes. The given sentence is perfectly understandable and natural, but Egyptians might also say similar things in slightly different ways, for example:

• انا عطشان وعايز اشرب ميه ساقعة
• انا عطشان، عايز اشرب ميه باردة
• نفسي اشرب ميه باردة

A useful note:

• باردة means cold
• ساقعة often means really cold / chilled, and is very common for drinks

So if you want very natural everyday Egyptian, ميه ساقعة is also extremely common.

Because normal Arabic writing usually leaves out most short vowels.

So learners have to know or learn the pronunciation from context and exposure.

For example:

• اشرب is written with the consonants and long vowel information, but the exact short vowels are understood as ashrab
• عطشان is read as ʿaṭshān
• باردة is read as bārda

This is normal in Arabic, not something special about this sentence.

That is why listening practice is so important: spelling alone often does not tell you the full pronunciation.