القطة بتطلع فوق السرير لما الكلب بييجي.

A common Egyptian Arabic pronunciation is:

el-ʔoṭṭa بتطلع فوق السرير لما el-kalb biyīgi
or more fully in transliteration:

el-ʔoṭṭa btiṭlaʿ foʔ es-sarīr lamma el-kalb biyīgi

A few helpful notes:

• القطة is usually pronounced el-ʔoṭṭa in Egyptian, because ق is often a glottal stop ʔ.
• بتطلع = btiṭlaʿ
• فوق = foʔ
• السرير is pronounced es-sarīr, not el-sarīr, because س is a sun letter.
• بييجي = biyīgi

So the whole sentence sounds roughly like:

el-ʔoṭṭa btiṭlaʿ foʔ es-sarīr lamma el-kalb biyīgi

بتطلع comes from the verb طلع, which often has the basic idea of going up, coming up, climbing, or rising.

In this sentence, بتطلع فوق السرير means something like:

• goes up onto the bed
• climbs onto the bed
• gets up on the bed

So it is not just a generic goes. It specifically has an upward movement sense.

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is very commonly used with the present tense.

So:

• بتطلع = she goes up / she climbs
• بييجي = he comes / he is coming

This بـ often marks:

• habitual actions
• general present
• regular/repeated actions
• sometimes present ongoing meaning, depending on context

In this sentence, it gives a natural everyday present meaning, especially a repeated situation:

• The cat goes up on the bed when the dog comes.

Because القطة means the cat, and grammatically it is feminine in Arabic.

That is why the verb matches it with the feminine form:

• هي بتطلع = she goes up
• القطة بتطلع = the cat goes up

This is very normal in Arabic: verbs agree with the gender of the subject.

Also, many animal words in Arabic have grammatical gender regardless of the animal’s actual sex. Here قطة is feminine.

Yes, by itself بتطلع can also mean you go up when speaking to one male.

That is because in Egyptian Arabic, the same present-tense form can match:

• 3rd person feminine singular: she goes up
• 2nd person masculine singular: you go up

So out of context, بتطلع could mean either one.

But in this sentence, the subject القطة comes first, so it clearly means:

• the cat goes up

فوق literally means above or on top of.

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, فوق is very commonly used where English would simply say on:

• فوق السرير = on the bed / on top of the bed

So in this sentence, it sounds very natural.

About على:

• على السرير also means on the bed
• but فوق السرير emphasizes the idea of being up on top of the bed

In many everyday contexts, Egyptians prefer فوق for this kind of meaning.

Here لما means when.

So:

• لما الكلب بييجي = when the dog comes

It introduces the situation or time when the first action happens.

In Egyptian Arabic, لما is a very common everyday word for when.

Because Egyptian Arabic very often uses subject + verb order in everyday speech.

So:

• القطة بتطلع = the cat goes up

This is very natural in conversation.

Compared with more formal Arabic:

• Modern Standard Arabic often uses verb-first structures more often
• Egyptian Arabic often prefers subject-first structures, especially in simple everyday sentences

So this sentence sounds colloquial and natural.

Most naturally, it sounds like a habitual/repeated situation:

• The cat goes up on the bed when the dog comes.

That is because:

• the بـ present tense often fits repeated actions
• the structure with لما suggests a recurring pattern

Depending on context, Egyptian present forms can sometimes describe something happening now, but here the most likely reading is a general pattern.

This is because of sun letters and moon letters.

The Arabic definite article is written الـ, but its pronunciation changes depending on the next letter.

• س in السرير is a sun letter

  • so السرير is pronounced es-sarīr
  • the l sound of the article blends into the s

• ك in الكلب is a moon letter

  • so الكلب is pronounced el-kalb
  • the l sound stays

So the spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

You will often see this written either as:

• بييجي
• بيجي

Both represent the same verb: he comes.

The fuller spelling بييجي shows the underlying form more clearly:

• بـ
  • ييجي

But in casual writing, many people simplify it to بيجي.

So if you see either one, do not worry. They usually mean the same thing in Egyptian Arabic.

Yes, and the nuance can shift a little.

• لما الكلب بييجي often sounds like a repeated/general situation:

  • when the dog comes
  • meaning this happens regularly

• لما الكلب ييجي can sound more like:

  • when the dog comes in a specific future/event sense

So in your sentence, بييجي fits very well because the whole sentence sounds like a general pattern of behavior.

In normal usage, القطة can simply mean the cat.

Grammatically, the noun is feminine, but in many everyday sentences it does not have to mean the animal is biologically female. It can just be the normal word being used for cat in that sentence.

So learners should focus first on the grammar:

• القطة is grammatically feminine
• therefore the verb is feminine too

That is the important point here.