المروحة شغالة دلوقتي.

A common Egyptian-style pronunciation is:

il-mirwaḥa shaghghāla dilwa'ti

A few notes:

• الـ at the start of المروحة is the word the.
• ḥ represents the Arabic letter ح, a stronger, breathier h sound.
• gh in shaghghāla represents غ.
• The apostrophe in dilwa'ti shows a small stop sound.

You may hear small vowel differences depending on the speaker, but this is a good practical pronunciation.

Because in Arabic, the present-tense to be is usually omitted.

So:

• المروحة شغالة literally looks like the fan working/on
• but it means the fan is on or the fan is working

This is very normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic-type sentence structure.
If you want a past or future meaning, then Arabic uses other words, but in the present, is/am/are is usually not said.

Here, شغالة means something like:

• on
• working
• running
• operating

With a device like a fan, المروحة شغالة usually means the fan is on or the fan is running.

It does not necessarily mean that the fan is functioning well in a technical sense only; it often simply means it is currently operating.

Because المروحة is grammatically feminine, so the adjective has to agree with it.

• masculine: شغال
• feminine: شغالة

Since مروحة is feminine, you say:

• المروحة شغالة

If the noun were masculine, you would use شغال instead.

For example:

• التكييف شغال = the air conditioner is on

Yes, that is a very good clue.

The word مروحة ends in ة (taa marbuuTa), which often marks a feminine noun. So learners usually expect feminine agreement with it, and that is exactly why the sentence uses شغالة.

This pattern is very common:

• عربية جديدة = a/the car is new
• اللمبة منورة = the light is on
• المروحة شغالة = the fan is on

دلوقتي means now or right now in Egyptian Arabic.

So:

• المروحة شغالة = the fan is on
• المروحة شغالة دلوقتي = the fan is on now / right now

It is a very common everyday Egyptian word.

Yes.

If you say:

• المروحة شغالة

that already means the fan is on.

Adding دلوقتي just makes the time more explicit:

• المروحة شغالة دلوقتي = the fan is on right now

So دلوقتي is optional unless you specifically want to stress now.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• مروحة = a fan / fan
• المروحة = the fan

In this sentence, the speaker is talking about a specific fan, so المروحة means the fan.

Yes. The sentence as written is very natural:

• المروحة شغالة دلوقتي

But Egyptian Arabic also allows other orders, depending on what you want to emphasize:

• دلوقتي المروحة شغالة = Right now, the fan is on
• المروحة دلوقتي شغالة = also possible, with now inserted in the middle

The original order is simple and neutral.

You would usually say:

• المروحة مش شغالة دلوقتي

Here, مش means not.

So the pattern is:

• المروحة شغالة = the fan is on
• المروحة مش شغالة = the fan is not on

This is the normal everyday Egyptian way to negate this kind of sentence.

Yes, this sentence is very natural Egyptian Arabic.

Two especially Egyptian features here are:

• دلوقتي for now
• شغالة used conversationally for on / running / working

A Standard Arabic sentence would usually be phrased differently. But if you are learning Egyptian Arabic for conversation, المروحة شغالة دلوقتي is exactly the kind of sentence you want to know.

Not always. Its meaning depends on context.

For things like devices or electricity, it often means:

• on
• running
• working

But with people or activities, related forms can mean:

• working
• busy
• in operation

So in this sentence, because the subject is المروحة, the meaning is naturally the fan is on/running.

It is more like the fan is on or the fan is running right now.

If you say:

• المروحة شغالة دلوقتي

you are describing its current state at this moment.

It is not usually understood as a general fact like the fan works in the sense of the fan functions properly in general, although context can blur that a little. In everyday use, listeners will most likely understand it’s on right now.