لو ما فهمتش الدرس، ممكن اسال الزميلة بعد الاجتماع.

If I do not understand the lesson, I can ask the female coworker after the meeting.

Breakdown of لو ما فهمتش الدرس، ممكن اسال الزميلة بعد الاجتماع.

• ال: the
• بعد: after
• ما...ش: not
• لو: if

Questions & Answers about لو ما فهمتش الدرس، ممكن اسال الزميلة بعد الاجتماع.

How would I pronounce this sentence in Egyptian Arabic?

A rough pronunciation is:

law ma fihimtish id-dars, mumkin as'al iz-zamīla baʿd il-igtimāʿ.

A few notes:

• لو = law
• ما فهمتش = ma fihimtish
• الدرس is usually pronounced id-dars or ed-dars
• ممكن = mumkin
• أسأل / اسال = as'al
• الزميلة = iz-zamīla or ez-zamīla
• بعد الاجتماع = baʿd il-igtimāʿ

You may see slightly different transliterations, because Egyptian Arabic is not written with one fixed Roman spelling system.

What does لو mean here?

لو means if.

It introduces a condition:

• لو ما فهمتش الدرس... = If I don't understand / didn't understand the lesson...

In Egyptian Arabic, لو is very common for if clauses.

Why is there no separate word for I in the sentence?