Questions & Answers about عندنا اجتماع مع المدير الساعة سبعة الصبح.
A natural Egyptian-style pronunciation is:
ʿandena egtimāʿ maʿ el-modīr es-sāʿa sabʿa ṣ-ṣobḥ
A simpler learner-friendly version:
an-DE-na eg-te-MAʿ maʿ el-mo-DEER es-SA-a SAB-a s-SOBH
A few notes:
- ج in Egypt is usually pronounced like g in go, so اجتماع sounds like egtimāʿ.
- الساعة is usually pronounced es-sāʿa.
- الصبح is usually pronounced with an emphatic s, roughly ṣ-ṣobḥ.
عندنا literally means at us, but in everyday Arabic it usually means we have.
It breaks down like this:
- عند = at / by / with
- نا = us / our
So عندنا اجتماع literally means something like at us, there is a meeting, which English expresses as we have a meeting.
Because Egyptian Arabic usually does not use a verb like English have in this kind of sentence.
Instead, possession is often expressed with عند:
- عندي = I have
- عندك = you have
- عندنا = we have
So:
- عندنا اجتماع = we have a meeting
This is a very common Arabic pattern.