هو بيشحن التليفون دلوقتي.

هو means he.

In Egyptian Arabic, subject pronouns are often optional because the verb already gives clues about the subject. So you can hear both:

• هو بيشحن التليفون دلوقتي
• بيشحن التليفون دلوقتي

Both can mean He is charging the phone now.

Including هو can make the sentence clearer, especially:

• when you want to emphasize he
• when the subject has just changed
• when you want to avoid ambiguity

So هو is common, but not always required.

The بـ prefix is very important in Egyptian Arabic. In many everyday sentences, it marks the present/habitual form of the verb.

So:

• يشحن = a basic non-past form
• بيشحن = he charges / he is charging

In Egyptian Arabic, this bi- form is often used for both:

• simple present: he charges
• present progressive: he is charging

The time is usually understood from context or from words like دلوقتي (now).

Egyptian Arabic does not always separate simple present and present continuous the way English does.

So بيشحن can mean:

• he charges
• he is charging

The adverb دلوقتي makes it clear that this sentence refers to right now, so the natural English translation is He is charging the phone now.

Without دلوقتي, هو بيشحن التليفون could mean either:

• He charges the phone
• He is charging the phone

depending on context.

In Arabic, sentences in the present tense usually do not use a separate verb meaning is/am/are.

So English:

• He is charging the phone

becomes Egyptian Arabic:

• هو بيشحن التليفون

There is no separate present-tense is.

This is normal in Arabic. The verb itself carries the meaning of the action, and the present-time meaning comes from the verb form and context.

بيشحن can be broken down like this:

• بـ = present marker in Egyptian Arabic
• يـ... = part of the verb form used with he
• شحن = the root area related to charging

So بيشحن means he charges / he is charging.

Compare:

• أنا بشحن = I am charging
• إنتَ بتشحن = you are charging
• هو بيشحن = he is charging
• هي بتشحن = she is charging

This shows that the beginning of the verb changes with the subject.

Egyptian Arabic often uses verb + object word order, just like English does here:

• بيشحن التليفون
• charging the phone

So the object التليفون comes after the verb because it is the thing being charged.

The full sentence is:

• هو = he
• بيشحن = is charging
• التليفون = the phone
• دلوقتي = now

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• تليفون = a phone / phone
• التليفون = the phone

In this sentence, التليفون means a specific phone, so الـ is used.

In Egyptian Arabic, borrowed words often have more than one spelling, especially in informal writing.

For telephone/phone, you may see:

• تليفون
• تلفون

Both are used. التليفون is a very common spelling in Egyptian Arabic.

So this is mostly a vocabulary/spelling issue, not a grammar issue.

دلوقتي means now, right now, or at the moment.

It helps show that the action is happening at the present time. That is why the sentence is naturally understood as:

• He is charging the phone now

You can think of دلوقتي as a strong clue that the sentence is describing a current action.

Yes. Egyptian Arabic is fairly flexible with adverbs like دلوقتي.

You may hear:

• هو بيشحن التليفون دلوقتي
• هو دلوقتي بيشحن التليفون
• دلوقتي هو بيشحن التليفون

All of these are possible, though they may sound slightly different in emphasis.

The version you were given is very natural and common.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• هو = huwwa or howwa
• بيشحن = biyish7an or beyesh7an
• التليفون = it-tilifoon or et-telefoon
• دلوقتي = dilwa’ti or delwa’ti

A smoother full pronunciation might sound like:

huwwa biyish7an it-tilifoon دلوقتي

Notes:

• The 7 in transliteration stands for the Arabic letter ح, a strong h sound.
• The ’ in delwa’ti represents a little catch in the throat from ق, which in Egyptian Arabic is often pronounced as a glottal stop.

In Egyptian Arabic, the definite article الـ is often pronounced il- or el- in careful transliteration, but its vowel can sound closer to i or e depending on the speaker and the surrounding sounds.

Also, because ت is a sun letter, the l sound of الـ assimilates to it.

So:

• written: التليفون
• pronounced roughly: et-telefoon or it-tilifoon

Instead of pronouncing the l, the t gets strengthened.

This is why learners often hear:

• not al-tilifoon
• but something more like et-tilifoon

No. شحن is a common verb for charging in several related senses.

It can be used for:

• charging a phone
• charging a battery
• topping up credit/balance in some contexts
• shipping/freight in other contexts, depending on form and situation

In this sentence, because the object is التليفون, the meaning is clearly charging the phone.

Yes. If everyone already knows what is being talked about, the object can sometimes be omitted.

For example:

• هو بيشحن دلوقتي

This could mean:

• He’s charging it now
• or, depending on context, He’s charging now

But if you want to be clear and explicit, saying التليفون is better.

A more Modern Standard Arabic version might be:

• هو يشحن الهاتف الآن
• or more naturally for is charging: هو يقوم بشحن الهاتف الآن in some formal styles

But in real spoken Egyptian Arabic, the sentence you have is much more natural:

• هو بيشحن التليفون دلوقتي

Main differences:

• بيشحن is Egyptian spoken grammar
• التليفون is a common Egyptian everyday word
• دلوقتي is Egyptian for now
• MSA would more often use الهاتف for the phone and الآن for now

So yes, the Egyptian sentence is clearly dialectal and very natural in conversation.