انا هاقرا الدرس تاني قبل الامتحان.

It is the Egyptian Arabic future marker.
So هاقرا means I will read or I’m going to read.

A simple breakdown is:

• ها- = future
• قرا / اقرا here = the verb read in colloquial form

In Egyptian, this future marker is very common in everyday speech. In more formal Arabic, you would usually see something like سأقرأ or سوف أقرأ instead.

Because in Arabic, the verb already shows the subject, so أنا is optional here.

That means:

• أنا هاقرا الدرس تاني قبل الامتحان
• هاقرا الدرس تاني قبل الامتحان

can both mean the same thing.

Including أنا can add:

• emphasis
• clarity
• contrast, as in I’m the one who will read it again

So it is natural, but not required.

In Egyptian Arabic, هاقرا is pronounced roughly ha’ra or haʔra.

Two important things are happening:

• The ق in Egyptian is often pronounced as a glottal stop.
• Informal spelling often leaves out some hamza details that you would see in formal Arabic.

So a more careful formal-looking spelling might remind you of أقرأ, but in Egyptian everyday writing people often simplify it.

That is why the colloquial form looks different from formal Arabic سأقرأ.

Because د is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال disappears in pronunciation and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الدرس
• pronounced: ed-dars

This is a pronunciation rule only. The spelling stays الدرس.

Here, تاني means again.

So الدرس تاني means the lesson again.

In Egyptian Arabic, تاني is very common for:

• again
• a second time

You may also hear:

• مرة تانية = one more time / again

Both are natural, but تاني is short and very common in speech.

Yes. تاني can mean second in some contexts, and again in others.

For example:

• الدرس التاني = the second lesson
• أقرا الدرس تاني = read the lesson again

So the meaning depends on the sentence structure.

In your sentence, because it comes after the object and fits the action, it clearly means again, not second.

It can mean both, depending on context.

Literally, it means read the lesson.
But in everyday use, especially with something like before the exam, it can also suggest:

• study the lesson
• review the lesson

So even if the core meaning is read, the real-life sense may be closer to go over the lesson again.

Because قبل directly means before, and it can be followed straight by a noun phrase.

So:

• قبل الامتحان = before the exam

You do not need an extra word like of or the one called or anything like that.

This is normal Arabic structure:

• قبل
  • noun
• بعد
  • noun
• مع
  • noun

Also, in Egyptian pronunciation, قبل is often said roughly as abl or ’abl.

Because assimilation only happens before sun letters.

In الدرس, the word begins with د, which is a sun letter, so ال becomes ed- in pronunciation.

But الامتحان begins with ا followed by م, and this does not trigger sun-letter assimilation. So the article stays pronounced as el-.

That is why:

• الدرس → ed-dars
• الامتحان → el-emteḥan

Because this is normal for Arabic writing, especially in dialect.

A few things to know:

• Short vowels are usually not written.
• Case endings belong to formal Arabic and are not used in Egyptian speech.
• Dialect writing is often flexible and less standardized than formal Arabic.

So a sentence like this is usually written in a practical, everyday way, not in a fully marked formal way.

Yes. A few common alternatives are:

• هاقرا الدرس تاني قبل الامتحان
• أنا هقرا الدرس تاني قبل الامتحان
• أنا هاقرا الدرس مرة تانية قبل الامتحان

These differences can reflect:

• optional use of أنا
• different informal spellings of the future form
• using تاني vs. مرة تانية

All of them are natural Egyptian Arabic, with basically the same meaning.