شوف الورقة اللي على الكرسي.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is:

shoof el-wara'a elli ʿala l-korsi

A few notes:

• شوف = shoof
• الورقة = el-wara'a
• اللي = elli
• على = ʿala
• الكرسي = el-korsi or reduced to l-korsi after ʿala

So you may also hear it flowing together as:

shoof el-wara'a elli ʿalal-korsi

The ʿ in ʿala is the Arabic letter ع.

Here, شوف means look at or see.

In Egyptian Arabic, شاف / يشوف is the verb to see / to look. In commands, شوف is very common for telling someone:

• Look
• Take a look at
• See

So شوف الورقة is literally look at the paper.

Because شوف can take a direct object in Egyptian Arabic.

In English, we usually say look at the paper.
In Egyptian Arabic, شوف works more like see the paper / look at the paper, so you can simply say:

• شوف الورقة

No extra word is required.

That is different from another common verb, بص, which often does use a preposition:

• بص على الورقة = look at the paper

So both can be natural, but شوف الورقة is perfectly normal.

Yes. شوف is the imperative form, so it is a command: Look.

This form is usually addressed to one male.

Other common forms are:

• شوفي = said to one female
• شوفوا = said to more than one person

So:

• شوف الورقة = Look at the paper (to one man / boy)
• شوفي الورقة = Look at the paper (to one woman / girl)
• شوفوا الورقة = Look at the paper (to a group)

الورقة means the paper or the sheet of paper.

Breakdown:

• ورقة = paper / sheet of paper
• الـ = the
• الورقة = the paper

Depending on context, ورقة can also mean things like:

• a piece of paper
• a document
• a note

But in a simple sentence like this, the paper is the safest meaning.

Because the letter ق in Egyptian Arabic is often pronounced as a glottal stop.

In Standard Arabic, ورقة is pronounced more like:

waraqa

In Egyptian Arabic, ق very often becomes ء in pronunciation, so it sounds like:

wara'a

This is a very common Egyptian feature.
So learners should not be surprised when ق does not sound like a hard q.

اللي means that, which, or who as a relative pronoun.

In this sentence:

• الورقة اللي على الكرسي
• literally: the paper that is on the chair

So اللي connects the paper to the extra information on the chair.

In Egyptian Arabic, اللي is used very broadly:

• for people
• for things
• for singular or plural

Unlike English, it does not change form the way who / which / that do.

Because in Arabic, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense.

So:

• اللي على الكرسي
• literally: that on the chair
• natural English: that is on the chair

This is completely normal in both spoken Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Compare:

• الورقة على الكرسي = The paper is on the chair
• no spoken word for is

It describes the paper.

The structure is:

• الورقة = the paper
• اللي على الكرسي = that is on the chair

So the whole phrase means:

• the paper that is on the chair

A good rule: the relative clause with اللي usually describes the noun right before it.

This is Egyptian Arabic / colloquial Arabic.

The biggest clue is اللي, which is the everyday Egyptian relative word.
In Standard Arabic, you would normally use something like:

• انظر إلى الورقة التي على الكرسي
• شاهد الورقة التي على الكرسي

Also:

• شوف is very common in dialect
• التي would be the Standard Arabic form instead of اللي

So this sentence is natural spoken Egyptian, not formal written Standard Arabic.

Yes. A very common alternative is:

بص على الورقة اللي على الكرسي

This also means Look at the paper on the chair.

The difference is roughly:

• شوف الورقة = look at / see the paper
• بص على الورقة = more specifically look at the paper

Both are natural.
In everyday Egyptian speech, you will hear both شوف and بص a lot.

Because in Arabic, descriptive relative clauses normally come after the noun they describe.

So Arabic says:

• the paper that is on the chair
• الورقة اللي على الكرسي

not:

• that is on the chair the paper

This is the normal Arabic word order.
The noun comes first, and then the description follows it.