القطة تحت العربية دلوقتي.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is roughly:

il-ʾoṭṭa taḥt il-ʿarabeyya دلوقتي

You may also hear the last word pronounced roughly as:

dilwaʾti or delwaʾti

A few useful notes:

• القطة starts with ق, which in Cairene Egyptian is often pronounced like a glottal stop ʾ.
• تحت is taḥt.
• العربية is il-ʿarabeyya.
• دلوقتي means now / right now.

Because in Arabic, the verb to be is usually left out in the present tense.

So instead of saying:

• The cat is under the car now

Egyptian Arabic simply says:

• The cat under the car now

This is completely normal. The idea of is is understood automatically from the sentence.

If you wanted past or future, then Arabic would use other words, but in the present tense, zero verb is very common.

تحت means under / underneath.

In this sentence, it gives the location of the cat:

• القطة = the cat
• تحت العربية = under the car

So تحت works like a preposition of place.

A very common pattern in Egyptian Arabic is:

noun + place word + noun

For example:

• الكتاب فوق الترابيزة = the book is on the table
• الولد جوه البيت = the boy is inside the house

That is a very common learner question.

In Egyptian Arabic, عربية very often means car.

So:

• العربية = the car

This is a normal everyday Egyptian word. It does not mean Arabic language here.

If you want the more formal or Modern Standard Arabic word for car, that would usually be:

• السيارة

But in everyday Egyptian speech, عربية is extremely common.

Because both nouns are definite:

• القطة = the cat
• العربية = the car

The prefix الـ is the Arabic word for the.

So the sentence is talking about a specific cat and a specific car, not just any cat or any car.

Compare:

• قطة = a cat
• القطة = the cat
• عربية = a car
• العربية = the car

Yes. قطة is grammatically feminine.

That matters in Arabic because adjectives, pronouns, and past-tense verbs often agree with the noun’s gender.

In this particular sentence, you do not see much agreement because there is no adjective and no explicit present-tense verb.

But elsewhere you would notice it. For example, if you added an adjective:

• القطة صغيرة = the cat is small

Here صغيرة is the feminine form.

Also, عربية is grammatically feminine too, even though a car is not biologically female. That is just grammatical gender.

Because Arabic does not always organize sentences the same way English does.

This sentence is a very normal Egyptian pattern:

• subject
  • location
    • time

So:

• القطة = subject
• تحت العربية = location
• دلوقتي = time

Literally, it is something like:

• The cat under the car now

That sounds incomplete in English, but it is perfectly natural in Arabic.

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

Yes, it can move depending on emphasis and style. For example:

• القطة تحت العربية دلوقتي
• دلوقتي القطة تحت العربية

Both are understandable. Putting دلوقتي at the end is very natural in everyday speech.

If you remove it, the sentence still works:

• القطة تحت العربية = the cat is under the car

Adding دلوقتي just makes the timing explicit.

It is specifically Egyptian in some of its wording, especially:

• العربية for car
• دلوقتي for now

A more formal or Modern Standard Arabic version would be closer to:

• القطة تحت السيارة الآن

But everyday Egyptian speakers commonly say:

• القطة تحت العربية دلوقتي

So if you are learning Egyptian Arabic, this sentence is natural and useful.

In Egyptian Arabic, the definite article الـ is usually pronounced more like il- or el-, not al-.

So:

• القطة sounds like il-ʾoṭṭa
• العربية sounds like il-ʿarabeyya

This is one of the normal sound differences between Modern Standard Arabic pronunciation and Egyptian colloquial pronunciation.

A learner should get used to seeing الـ in writing but hearing il- or el- in speech.