حضرتك شفت الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟

حضرتك is a polite way to say you in Egyptian Arabic.

• It is used to show respect, like speaking to a customer, an older person, or someone you do not know well.
• Literally, it comes from the idea of your presence, but in everyday speech it just functions as a respectful you.

A less formal version would usually be:

• إنت شفت الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟ = informal Did you see the charger on the chair?

It is Egyptian Arabic.

A few clues:

• حضرتك is extremely common in Egyptian for polite you
• اللي is the Egyptian relative word for that / which / who
• The overall phrasing sounds natural in spoken Egyptian

In Standard Arabic, the sentence would be different, especially the relative pronoun.

شفت is the past-tense form of the verb to see.

Here it means you saw.

A useful thing to know is that شفت can also mean I saw in Arabic, so by itself it is ambiguous. The context tells you the meaning:

• أنا شفت = I saw
• حضرتك شفت = you saw (polite, probably to a man unless context says otherwise)

So in this sentence, حضرتك makes it clear that the speaker is addressing someone respectfully.

Because Arabic does not normally need a separate helping verb like English do/did to make questions.

English says:

• Did you see...?

Egyptian Arabic simply uses the past verb itself:

• شفت...؟

The sentence becomes a question mainly through:

• intonation in speech
• the question mark in writing
• context

So شفت already carries the meaning of saw / did see.

Yes, the order can change, and Egyptian Arabic is fairly flexible here.

حضرتك شفت...؟ is very natural and common. It puts the addressee first, almost like:

• As for you, did you see...?

You may also hear:

• شفت الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟
  = Did you see the charger on the chair?

In everyday speech, mentioning حضرتك adds politeness and makes the addressee explicit.

الشاحن means the charger.

In everyday use, it often refers to a phone charger, but the word itself can be more general. Context usually tells you what kind of charger is meant.

So if people are talking about a phone, then الشاحن will normally be understood as the phone charger.

Because the noun is definite here: the charger, not just a charger.

Also, in Egyptian Arabic, when you use اللي after a noun, that noun is usually definite:

• الشاحن اللي على الكرسي = the charger that is on the chair

This is a very common pattern.

Using شاحن اللي... would sound wrong in normal Arabic because اللي usually follows a definite noun in this kind of sentence.

اللي means that, which, or who, depending on context.

In this sentence:

• الشاحن اللي على الكرسي
• literally: the charger that is on the chair

One very useful thing for learners: in Egyptian Arabic, اللي does not change for gender or number. It is much simpler than Standard Arabic.

So the same word can be used for:

• the man who
• the woman who
• the thing that
• the people who

على means on, and الكرسي means the chair.

So:

• على الكرسي = on the chair

In fast Egyptian speech, this may sound more like:

• عَ الكرسي
• or عَ الكُرسي

So learners often hear a shortened pronunciation even though the full spelling is على الكرسي.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• الشاحن is pronounced roughly esh-shaḥen in Egyptian
• not el-shaḥen

This happens with many words in Arabic. The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

Yes. Arabic verbs often already include the subject, so a separate subject pronoun is not always necessary.

For example:

• شفت already contains the idea of I saw or you saw, depending on context

That means the sentence could be shorter:

• شفت الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟

Adding حضرتك is not required for grammar, but it adds:

• politeness
• clarity
• emphasis on the person being addressed

Often, yes.

If you are addressing a woman politely, many speakers would say:

• حضرتك شفتي الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟

Here شفتي is the feminine you saw form.

But in real spoken Egyptian, some people may still use forms a bit flexibly with polite حضرتك, especially depending on region or habit. For learning purposes, it is safest to remember:

• to a man: حضرتك شفت...؟
• to a woman: حضرتك شفتي...؟

A common less formal version is:

• إنت شفت الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟
  to a man

• إنتِ شفتي الشاحن اللي على الكرسي؟
  to a woman

Compared with حضرتك, these are more casual and are used with friends, family, or people you know well.