انا هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية.

A natural pronunciation is:

ana harodd ʿala r-risāla baʿd šuwayya

You may also hear slight variations like harudd instead of harodd, depending on the speaker.

A few pronunciation notes:

• هرد has a doubled d sound: ha-rodd
• ع in على and بعد is the Arabic letter ʿayn, which has no exact English equivalent
• الرسالة is pronounced with a doubled r sound because ر is a “sun letter,” so the l of ال is not pronounced separately
• شوية is usually pronounced shuwayya / shwayya

هرد means I will reply / I’ll answer.

It breaks down like this:

• هـ = a future marker in Egyptian Arabic, meaning will / going to
• رد = from the verb ردّ meaning to reply, answer, respond, and in some contexts to return

So هرد literally means I will reply.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بـ usually marks the present or habitual action
  
  • برد = I reply / I am replying / I usually reply
• هـ (or sometimes حـ) marks the future
  
  • هرد = I will reply

So here هرد is used because the speaker is talking about something they will do later.

Yes, it can be left out.

Arabic verbs already show the person, so هرد by itself already means I will reply. That means:

• أنا هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية
• هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية

Both are correct.

Including أنا can add a little emphasis or clarity, but it is often omitted in normal speech.

Because the verb ردّ in the sense of reply/respond commonly goes with على in Arabic.

So:

• رد على الرسالة = reply to the message
• literally: respond on/to the message

This is just the normal Arabic pattern. A learner should memorize it as:

• ردّ على = reply to / respond to

So you should not normally say هرد الرسالة if you mean reply to the message.

الرسالة literally means the message or the letter.

In everyday Egyptian Arabic, رسالة can refer to:

• a text message
• a written message
• an email
• a letter

The exact meaning depends on context. In modern everyday use, it often means a message, especially if people are talking about phones or chatting.

Literally, بعد شوية means something like after a little bit.

In natural English, it usually means:

• in a little while
• in a bit
• after a little while
• soon, but not immediately

It is a very common and natural colloquial Egyptian expression. It does not usually mean an exact amount of time. It is vague, just like in a bit in English.

شوية is colloquial and very common in Egyptian Arabic.

It means:

• a little
• a bit
• some

In a more formal or Modern Standard Arabic style, you might use:

• بعد قليل = after a short while / shortly

So the sentence in a more formal style would be something like:

سأرد على الرسالة بعد قليل.

But بعد شوية is exactly what you would expect in everyday Egyptian speech.

Because ر is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when الـ comes before certain letters, the l sound assimilates to the next consonant. Since ر is one of those letters:

• الرسالة is pronounced er-risāla or ir-risāla
• not el-risāla

That is why the r sounds doubled.

So in the full sentence, على الرسالة is often heard roughly as:

ʿala r-risāla

and in fast speech it may sound even more connected.

Yes. The verb ردّ can have more than one meaning depending on context.

Common meanings include:

• reply / answer / respond
• return something
• send back
• put back

For example:

• هرد على الرسالة = I’ll reply to the message
• هرد الكتاب = I’ll return the book

So the preposition or object helps determine the meaning.

It can change somewhat.

The basic sentence:

أنا هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية

is very natural.

But Egyptian Arabic allows other word orders for emphasis. For example:

• هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية
  = same meaning, without أنا
• الرسالة هرد عليها بعد شوية
  = The message, I’ll reply to it in a bit

Notice that when الرسالة is moved to the front, Arabic usually repeats it with a pronoun:

• عليها = to it

So Arabic often uses this kind of repetition when a noun is fronted for emphasis.

A natural Modern Standard Arabic version would be:

سأرد على الرسالة بعد قليل.

Comparison:

• Egyptian: أنا هرد على الرسالة بعد شوية
• MSA: سأرد على الرسالة بعد قليل

Main differences:

• هـ in Egyptian becomes سـ / سوف in MSA for the future
• بعد شوية is colloquial; بعد قليل is formal/standard
• أنا is still optional in many cases in both varieties because the verb already shows the subject