الرف التاني في الصالة عليه كتاب وصورة.

A natural Egyptian Arabic pronunciation is:

ir-raff it-tāni fis-sāla ʿalēh kitāb w ṣūra

A rough breakdown:

• الرف → ir-raff
• التاني → it-tāni
• في الصالة → fis-sāla
• عليه → ʿalēh
• كتاب → kitāb
• وصورة → w ṣūra

A more literal rhythm would be something like:

ir-raff it-tāni fis-sāla ʿalēh kitāb u ṣūra

التاني means the second here.

So:

• الرف = the shelf
• التاني = the second

Together, الرف التاني = the second shelf

In Egyptian Arabic, التاني is the normal everyday form. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would usually see الثاني instead.

Also, in some contexts التاني can mean the other one, but in this sentence it clearly means the second.

Because Arabic normally does not use a present-tense to be in sentences like this.

In English, you say:

• The second shelf in the living room is...

In Arabic, the present-tense is is usually just understood from the structure.

So the sentence literally feels more like:

• The second shelf in the living room — on it a book and a picture.

This is completely normal in Arabic.

في الصالة means in the living room or in the hall/lounge, depending on context.

It is describing which shelf we are talking about:

• الرف التاني = the second shelf
• في الصالة = in the living room

So together:

الرف التاني في الصالة = the second shelf in the living room

Arabic often places descriptive phrases like this directly after the noun phrase they describe.

عليه means on it here.

It is made of:

• على = on
• ـه = him / it (masculine attached pronoun)

So:

• عليه = on him / on it

Because الرف is a masculine noun, عليه refers back to the shelf and means on it.

In this sentence:

• عليه كتاب وصورة = there is a book and a picture on it

Very literally: on it [are] a book and a picture

Because الرف is grammatically masculine.

In Arabic, even objects have grammatical gender. So when you refer back to الرف with a pronoun, you use the masculine form:

• الرف → masculine
• therefore عليه = on it with a masculine it

If the noun were feminine, you would use a feminine pronoun instead.

Because they are indefinite here:

• كتاب = a book
• صورة = a picture

If they had ال, they would mean:

• الكتاب = the book
• الصورة = the picture

So:

• عليه كتاب وصورة = there is a book and a picture on it
• عليه الكتاب والصورة would mean the book and the picture are on it

Because a shelf is something you put things on, not usually in.

So:

• عليه = on it
• فيه = in it

With رف meaning shelf, عليه is the natural choice.

Compare:

• عليه كتاب = there is a book on it
• فيه كتاب = there is a book in it

The second one would sound more natural with something like a box, bag, drawer, or room.

The structure is very common in Arabic:

[noun phrase] + [location/description] + [what is on/in it]

Here it is:

• الرف التاني في الصالة = the second shelf in the living room
• عليه كتاب وصورة = on it are a book and a picture

A very literal English rearrangement would be:

The second shelf in the living room, on it a book and a picture.

Natural English changes that to:

The second shelf in the living room has a book and a picture on it
or
There is a book and a picture on the second shelf in the living room.

Not always. الصالة can mean different but related things depending on context, such as:

• living room
• hall
• lounge
• main sitting area

In many everyday Egyptian contexts, translating it as living room is very natural. But sometimes hall or lounge may fit better.

It is clearly Egyptian Arabic in style.

The biggest clue is التاني. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would normally expect الثاني instead.

Also, the everyday spoken flow of the whole sentence feels colloquial.

A more Standard Arabic version might look different, for example using الثاني and a more formal style. But the Egyptian sentence is perfectly normal for speech.

Yes. و is the normal Arabic word for and.

So:

• كتاب وصورة = a book and a picture

In pronunciation, و is often just a short w sound attached to the next word:

• وصورة → w ṣūra

That is why the phrase flows together very smoothly.

Yes, absolutely. That is a very natural English translation.

Even though Arabic literally says something closer to:

The second shelf in the living room, on it a book and a picture

good English often turns that into:

• The second shelf in the living room has a book and a picture on it
• There is a book and a picture on the second shelf in the living room

Both are good translations of the same Arabic sentence.