احنا هنروح البنك قبل الشغل.

A natural Egyptian Arabic pronunciation is:

eḥna hanrūḥ el-bank abel esh-shoghl

A few quick notes:

• احنا = eḥna or iḥna = we
• هنروح = hanrūḥ = we will go
• البنك = el-bank
• قبل = abel or qabl/abl depending on speaker
• الشغل = esh-shoghl

Helpful sound notes:

• ḥ is a stronger, breathier h
• ū is a long oo sound
• gh in shoghl is the Arabic غ, a back-of-the-throat sound

احنا means we in Egyptian Arabic.

It is the everyday spoken Egyptian form, while نحن is the Modern Standard Arabic form. So:

• احنا = spoken Egyptian we
• نحن = formal/literary we

A native Egyptian speaker would normally say احنا, not نحن, in casual conversation.

هنروح means we will go.

You can think of it as:

• ه / حـ = future marker, like will
• نروح = we go

So:

• نروح = we go / we are going
• هنروح = we will go

In informal writing, you may also see حنروح. Both represent the same idea in Egyptian Arabic.

Good question. In Arabic, the verb already tells you the subject, so هنروح by itself already means we will go.

That means the sentence could also be:

هنروح البنك قبل الشغل

Adding احنا does one of these things:

• makes the subject extra clear
• adds a little emphasis
• sounds more natural in some contexts

So احنا is often optional here.

In English, you say go to the bank. In Egyptian Arabic, with a destination, راح / يروح often does not need a separate word for to.

So:

• هنروح البنك = we’ll go to the bank

This is very normal in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

English requires to, but Arabic often doesn’t in this kind of sentence.

Because it means the bank, not just a bank.

• بنك = a bank / bank
• البنك = the bank

The الـ is the definite article, like the in English.

In Egyptian pronunciation, الـ is usually said as el-, so البنك sounds like el-bank.

This happens because ش is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound disappears and the next consonant doubles in pronunciation.

So:

• written: الشغل
• pronounced: esh-shoghl

This is a very common Arabic pattern.

For comparison:

• البنك → el-bank because ب is a moon letter, so the l stays
• الشغل → esh-shoghl because ش is a sun letter, so the l assimilates

Here, الشغل means work.

In Egyptian Arabic, شغل is a very common everyday word that can mean:

• work
• a job
• one’s workplace
• work-related matters

In this sentence, قبل الشغل most naturally means before work.

Compared with عمل:

• شغل is more everyday and conversational
• عمل is often more formal or standard

It can mean either one depending on context.

Usually, people understand قبل الشغل as something like:

• before the workday
• before going to work
• before work starts

If you want to be more explicit, you could say something like:

• قبل ما نروح الشغل = before we go to work

But the original sentence sounds natural and normal as it is.

The order is very natural for Egyptian Arabic:

• احنا = subject
• هنروح = verb
• البنك = destination
• قبل الشغل = time expression

So the structure is roughly:

We + will go + the bank + before work

This is normal in Egyptian Arabic. Spoken Egyptian often likes a straightforward subject-first pattern, especially in everyday speech.

Yes. A few natural alternatives are:

• هنروح البنك قبل الشغل

  • same meaning, just without احنا

• احنا رايحين البنك قبل الشغل

  • more like we’re going to the bank before work

• احنا هنروح البنك قبل ما نروح الشغل

  • more explicit: we’ll go to the bank before we go to work

All of these are natural, but احنا هنروح البنك قبل الشغل is simple, clear, and very normal Egyptian Arabic.