Learn Hardcore Arabic (Egyptian): الفرن سخن دلوقتي، فاختي هتحط الخضار فيه بعد نص ساعة. - The oven is hot now, so my sister will put the vegetables in it in half an hour.

Breakdown of الفرن سخن دلوقتي، فاختي هتحط الخضار فيه بعد نص ساعة.

Why is there no word for is in الفرن سخن دلوقتي?

In Egyptian Arabic, present-tense sentences often leave out the verb to be.

So الفرن سخن دلوقتي is literally something like:

but it naturally means:

This is very normal in Arabic. If you wanted past or future, then you would usually need a verb like كان.

Why is سخن written like that? Shouldn’t hot be ساخن?

Good question. In Egyptian Arabic, سخن is a common colloquial way to write the adjective hot/warm, especially in informal writing.

A few useful points:

So here it means hot, not a past-tense verb.

Is سخن an adjective here, or does it mean got hot?

Here it is best understood as an adjective/predicate meaning hot.

Why?

Because it comes after الفرن and describes its current state:

In another context, سخن could be understood verbally, but in this sentence the structure clearly gives the descriptive meaning hot.