انا قلت للموظف اني استلمت المرتب متاخر في الشهر ده.

Because in Arabic, the verb already shows the subject, so قلت by itself already means I said.

Adding أنا is optional here. It can:

• make the sentence clearer,
• add emphasis,
• or simply sound natural in conversation.

So both of these are fine:

• قلت للموظف...
• أنا قلت للموظف...

The second one just has an explicit I.

Because with قال / قلت in Arabic, the person you speak to usually comes with لـ.

So:

• قلت للموظف = I said to the employee
• قلت له = I said to him

This is different from English, where tell someone usually does not need to.

It is:

• لـ = to
• الموظف = the employee

Together:

• للموظف = to the employee

So the phrase is literally I said to the employee.

Because it combines two parts:

• لـ = to
• الـ = the

When they come together, they become للـ.

So:

• ل + الموظف → للموظف

In pronunciation, this often sounds like lel-mowazzaf in Egyptian Arabic.

إني means roughly that I.

It introduces the content of what was said:

• قلت للموظف إني... = I told the employee that I...

It is basically إن + ي.

In informal writing, you may also see it written as اني without the hamza. That is very common in texting and casual online Arabic.

استلمت comes from استلم, which means:

• to receive
• to collect
• to take delivery of

In this sentence, with المرتب, it means I received / collected my salary.

A very common Egyptian alternative in salary contexts is:

• قبضت المرتب

That also means I got paid / I collected my pay, and it can sound even more everyday and colloquial.

In Egyptian Arabic, مرتب is the everyday word for salary/pay.

So:

• المرتب = the salary / the pay

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic word is:

• راتب

Both are understood, but مرتب sounds more naturally Egyptian in daily speech.

This is a good question, because English learners often expect a separate adverb form.

In Egyptian Arabic, words like متأخر are often used in places where English would use an adverb such as late.

So:

• استلمت المرتب متأخر is naturally understood as I received the salary late

You can think of it as describing the situation of the salary as delayed, even though in English we translate it more smoothly with an adverb.

Also note:

• careful spelling: متأخر
• casual spelling: متاخر

Because in Egyptian Arabic, demonstratives like this usually come after the noun.

So:

• الشهر ده = this month
• literally: the month this

This is very normal in Egyptian Arabic.

Compare:

• Egyptian: البيت ده = this house
• More formal Arabic: هذا البيت

في literally means in.

So في الشهر ده is literally in this month.

In natural English, we usually just say this month, but Egyptian Arabic often keeps في in expressions like this. So the Arabic phrasing sounds perfectly normal even if the English translation is shorter.

Not in the main verbs here.

Both a male and a female speaker say:

• أنا قلت
• استلمت

That is because first-person singular past tense does not change for gender in Arabic.

So a woman could say this exact same sentence with no change.

It is usually just informal spelling.

The more careful spelling is:

• متأخر

But in casual writing, especially in chats or text messages, many people leave out the hamza:

• متاخر

The same thing happens with words like:

• إني → اني

So it is not unusual at all in informal Egyptian writing.

A rough pronunciation would be:

ana 'olt lel-mowazzaf enni estalamt el-mortab meta'akhkhar fi sh-shahr da

A few helpful notes:

• قلت is often pronounced 'olt in Cairo, with a glottal stop instead of q
• للموظف often sounds like lel-mowazzaf
• الشهر has assimilation of ال, so it sounds like ish-shahr / sh-shahr
• ده is the common Egyptian masculine this

Yes. One very common everyday version would be:

أنا قلت للموظف إني قبضت المرتب متأخر الشهر ده

Why?

• قبضت is very common for got paid / collected my pay
• الشهر ده is a very natural Egyptian way to say this month

But the original sentence is still perfectly understandable and natural. It just uses استلمت instead of the even more colloquial قبضت.