انا قاعد على الكرسي وبقرا الرسالة.

قاعد literally means sitting. In this sentence, it describes the speaker’s position: أنا قاعد على الكرسي = I’m sitting on the chair.

In Egyptian Arabic, قاعد can sometimes also help give a sense of an ongoing action, but here it is mainly literal because it is followed by على الكرسي.

A female speaker would usually say:

انا قاعدة على الكرسي وبقرا الرسالة.

Only قاعد changes to قاعدة. The verb بقرا stays the same for I.

The بـ is a very common Egyptian Arabic marker for the present tense. So بقرا means I read / I’m reading, depending on context.

In this sentence, because the situation is happening right now, it is naturally understood as I’m reading.

Because this sentence is in Egyptian Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

• Modern Standard Arabic: أقرأ
• Egyptian Arabic: بقرا

Egyptian uses different everyday verb forms, and the بـ prefix is a key part of the normal present tense.

Sometimes yes. You may hear:

قاعد على الكرسي وبقرا الرسالة

if the context already makes it clear who is speaking.

But أنا is very common and helps make the subject explicit. In this sentence, keeping أنا sounds completely natural.

على means on. For sitting on a chair, على is the normal preposition in Egyptian Arabic, just as on is natural in English.

So:

• على الكرسي = on the chair

The prefix الـ means the.

So:

• الكرسي = the chair
• الرسالة = the letter / the message

Since the English meaning already has the, the Arabic uses الـ on both nouns.

Because ر is a sun letter. In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the ل sound blends into the next consonant.

So:

• الرسالة is written with الـ
• but pronounced roughly ir-risāla in Egyptian

By contrast, الكرسي keeps the l sound, because ك is not a sun letter.

In Arabic writing, short words like و are usually attached to the following word.

So:

• و = and
• وبقرا = and I read / and I’m reading

This is completely normal Arabic spelling.

In most Egyptian Arabic, especially Cairene speech, ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop.

So:

• قاعد sounds roughly like ʾaʿed
• بقرا sounds roughly like baʾra

That is one of the big pronunciation differences between Egyptian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic.

It can mean both, depending on context. رسالة can be a physical letter, but in modern everyday use it can also mean a message.

So if no extra context is given, الرسالة may be understood as the letter or the message.