امضا الموظفة مش على الورق ده، هي على الورق التاني.

A natural pronunciation is:

emḍa l-mowazzafa mesh ʿala l-waraʔ da, heyya ʿala l-waraʔ et-tāni

A few notes:

• امضا sounds like emḍa
• الموظفة sounds roughly like el-mowazzafa
• الورق is el-waraʔ, with a small stop at the end because ق is often pronounced as a glottal stop in Egyptian Arabic
• هي here sounds like heyya
• التاني sounds like et-tāni

امضا means signature here.

It is a colloquial Egyptian form of Standard Arabic إمضاء. In everyday Egyptian speech, people often shorten or simplify words, so إمضاء commonly becomes امضا.

In this sentence, it clearly means the signature, not the act of signing.

Yes.

الموظفة means the female employee.

The masculine form is الموظف = the male employee.

English often just says employee without marking gender, but Arabic usually makes that distinction.

There is no separate word for is in present-tense sentences like this.

Egyptian Arabic, like Arabic generally, often leaves out the present-tense to be.

So:

• امضا الموظفة على الورق التاني literally looks like the employee’s signature on the other paper
• but it means the employee’s signature is on the other paper

And:

• امضا الموظفة مش على الورق ده means
• The employee’s signature is not on this paper

This is completely normal.

مش is the normal Egyptian Arabic way to negate a non-verbal sentence like this one.

Here the sentence is basically:

• امضا الموظفة = the employee’s signature
• على الورق ده = on this paper

So to say is not on this paper, Egyptian Arabic uses مش:

• امضا الموظفة مش على الورق ده

Using ليس would sound formal or literary, not natural in everyday Egyptian speech.

Because this is an iḍāfa structure, meaning a noun + noun possessive construction.

امضا الموظفة means:

• signature of the employee
• or more naturally in English, the employee’s signature

In Arabic iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun shows whether the whole phrase is definite

So:

• امضا الموظفة = the employee’s signature
• not الامضا الموظفة

This is one of the most important Arabic patterns to get used to.

Yes, you could.

الإمضا بتاعة الموظفة also means the employee’s signature.

The difference is mostly style:

• امضا الموظفة is more compact
• الإمضا بتاعة الموظفة is more explicitly colloquial and feels a bit looser

Both are understandable and natural, but the iḍāfa form امضا الموظفة is very common and useful.

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

So:

• الورق ده = this paper
• الولد ده = this boy
• البنت دي = this girl

This is different from Standard Arabic, where you often see the demonstrative before the noun, as in هذا الورق.

So الورق ده is the normal Egyptian pattern.

In Egyptian Arabic, ورق is often used as a collective noun for paper, papers, or documents.

So الورق ده can mean:

• this paper
• this document
• these papers

depending on context.

By contrast, ورقة usually means one sheet of paper.

So:

• الورق ده sounds very natural when talking about documents
• الورقة دي would sound more like this sheet/page

In many situations, either could work, but they are not exactly the same in feel.

هي means it here, referring back to امضا الموظفة.

So the second part literally works like:

• هي على الورق التاني
• It is on the other paper

Arabic often uses a pronoun like this instead of repeating the whole noun phrase again.

So instead of saying:

• امضا الموظفة مش على الورق ده، امضا الموظفة على الورق التاني

the sentence says the more natural:

• امضا الموظفة مش على الورق ده، هي على الورق التاني

It also helps create a contrast:

• not on this paper
• on the other paper

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, امضا is often treated as feminine, so speakers may refer back to it with هي.

That is why the sentence uses:

• هي على الورق التاني

This is something learners should get used to: grammatical gender in Arabic does not always match what feels logical in English.

The important thing for this sentence is simply that هي refers back to امضا الموظفة.

Here التاني means the other.

So:

• الورق التاني = the other paper

But التاني can also mean the second in other contexts.

This is very common in Egyptian Arabic. The exact meaning depends on context.

Also compare:

• الورق التاني = the other paper
• ورق تاني = another paper / some other paper

The presence of ال makes it more definite.

Because a signature is written on a paper or document, so على is the natural preposition.

• على الورق = on the paper

Using في would mean something more like in the paper, which is not the normal way to talk about where a signature appears.

So this matches English quite closely:

• on the paper = على الورق