جواز السفر في الملف اللي بعتتهولي امبارح.

Because Egyptian Arabic usually drops the present-tense to be.

So:

جواز السفر في الملف...

literally looks like the passport in the file..., but it naturally means the passport is in the file...

This is normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic for present-time statements.

This is an idafa construction, a very common noun structure in Arabic.

جواز السفر literally means passport of the travel, but idiomatically it means passport.

Important point: in an idafa, the first noun often does not take ال, and the whole phrase becomes definite because the second noun is definite.

So:

• جواز سفر = a passport
• جواز السفر = the passport

This is similar to:

• باب البيت = the door of the house / the house door

Here, في means in.

So:

في الملف = in the file

Egyptian Arabic also uses في to mean there is, but that happens in a different kind of structure, usually before an indefinite noun:

• في ملف = there is a file
• في الملف = in the file

Since الملف is definite, the meaning here is clearly in the file.

اللي means that / which / who in Egyptian Arabic. It introduces a relative clause.

So:

الملف اللي بعتتهولي = the file that you sent me

One nice thing for learners: اللي does not change for gender or number in Egyptian Arabic. It stays the same.

That is much simpler than Standard Arabic forms like الذي، التي، الذين.

A useful breakdown is:

• بعتّ = you sent
• -ه = it
• -لي = to me

So the whole word means:

بعتتهولي = you sent it to me

In this sentence, it refers back to الملف.

If you are talking to one man, this form is the natural reading. In speech, you may hear it pronounced something like baʿatthūli or baʿattholi.

Because Arabic often uses a resumptive pronoun inside relative clauses.

So Arabic says something closer to:

the file that you sent it to me

Even though English would just say:

the file that you sent me

This is completely normal in Egyptian Arabic. The -ه in بعتتهولي refers back to الملف.

Because time expressions often come at the end in neutral, everyday Egyptian Arabic.

So:

الملف اللي بعتتهولي امبارح = the file that you sent me yesterday

Putting امبارح at the end sounds very natural. You can move time words around for emphasis, but for learners, the end position is a very safe and common choice.

Yes, it is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Some clues are:

• اللي instead of Standard Arabic الذي / التي
• امبارح for yesterday
• the colloquial verb form بعتتهولي
• the missing present-tense is

A more Standard Arabic version would be something like:

جواز السفر في الملف الذي بعثته لي أمس

So the original sentence sounds natural in Egyptian speech, not in formal Standard Arabic.

A useful pronunciation guide is:

gawāz es-safar fil-malaf illi baʿatthūli embāreḥ

A few notes:

• ج in Egyptian is usually pronounced g, so جواز sounds like gawāz
• السفر is pronounced es-safar because س is a sun letter
• في الملف is often said smoothly as fil-malaf
• امبارح is commonly pronounced embāreḥ

It can mean either one, depending on context.

So الملف could be:

• a paper file
• a folder
• a document file
• sometimes even a digital file

In this sentence, you would decide from the situation. If someone was talking about email or attachments, it could easily mean a digital file. If they were talking about papers, it could mean a physical folder.