هي بتحاول تفهم معنى الكلمة من غير ما تسال الزميلة.

A natural Egyptian Arabic pronunciation would be:

hiyya btiḥāwil tifham maʿna l-kilma min ġēr ma tisʾal iz-zamīla

A few pronunciation notes:

• هي = hiyya
• بتحاول = btiḥāwil
• تفهم = tifham
• معنى = maʿna
• الكلمة = il-kilma or el-kelma
• من غير ما = min ġēr ma
• تسال is often pronounced tisʾal / tisaal depending on how carefully someone speaks
• الزميلة = iz-zamīla because ال changes in pronunciation before ز

In Egyptian Arabic, the verb بتحاول already tells you the subject is she or you (feminine singular) depending on context. So technically, هي is not always necessary.

It is included here because it can:

• make the subject clearer
• add emphasis
• sound more natural in some contexts

So:

• بتحاول تفهم... = She’s trying to understand...
• هي بتحاول تفهم... = also She’s trying to understand..., but with the subject stated explicitly

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ on the imperfect verb often marks the normal present or ongoing/habitual action.

So:

• تحاول by itself can appear in certain structures
• بتحاول means something like she tries / she is trying

Here بتحاول gives the everyday present sense that is very common in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

After verbs like يحاول (to try), Egyptian Arabic commonly uses another verb directly:

• بتحاول تفهم = she is trying to understand

The second verb تفهم is in the basic imperfect form.

This is very natural in Egyptian Arabic:

• بحاول أفتكر = I’m trying to remember
• بيحاول ينام = He’s trying to sleep

So بتحاول تفهم is simply she is trying to understand.

معنى الكلمة is an iḍāfa structure, often called a possessive or noun-link structure.

It literally means:

• معنى = meaning
• الكلمة = the word

Together:

• معنى الكلمة = the meaning of the word

Important detail: In Arabic, you usually do not put of as a separate word. Instead, the two nouns are linked directly.

Compare:

• معنى الكلمة = the meaning of the word
• اسم البنت = the girl’s name
• باب البيت = the door of the house

من غير ما is a very common Egyptian expression meaning:

• without
• without doing
• without the fact that...

In this sentence:

• من غير ما تسال الزميلة = without asking the colleague

It is used before a verb:

• من غير ما يقول = without saying
• من غير ما يشوف = without seeing
• من غير ما تكتب = without writing

This is one of the most useful spoken Egyptian patterns to learn.

In careful spelling, especially closer to Standard Arabic, you may see تسأل with a hamza.

In everyday Egyptian writing, especially informal writing, people often simplify spelling and write:

• تسال

even though the word comes from سأل (to ask).

So both relate to the same verb. Informal Egyptian spelling often drops or simplifies hamzas.

Good question. In Arabic, the verb سأل often takes a direct object:

• سأل الزميلة = asked the female colleague

So Arabic does not need a preposition here.

Compare:

• سألت المدرس = I asked the teacher
• سألته = I asked him

This is different from some English patterns, but it is completely normal in Arabic.

الزميلة means the female colleague/classmate.

The masculine form is:

• الزميل = the male colleague/classmate

So the sentence specifically says she does not ask the female colleague.

The ـة ending is a very common marker of feminine nouns in Arabic.

Although it is written الزميلة, it is pronounced more like iz-zamīla or ez-zamila.

That is because ز is a sun letter. With sun letters, the ل of ال is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الزميلة
• pronounced: iz-zamīla

This also happens in words like:

• الشمس → ish-shams
• الراجل → ir-rāgil
• الزمن → iz-zaman

This is clearly Egyptian Arabic.

Some clues are:

• بتحاول as a common spoken present form
• من غير ما as a very common colloquial structure
• informal spelling like تسال
• overall spoken-style phrasing

A more Standard Arabic version might look something like:

هي تحاول أن تفهم معنى الكلمة من دون أن تسأل زميلتها.

But in natural Egyptian speech, your original sentence sounds much more normal.

You would change the subject and the first verb:

• هو بيحاول يفهم معنى الكلمة من غير ما يسال الزميلة

So the main changes are:

• هي → هو
• بتحاول → بيحاول
• تفهم → يفهم
• تسال → يسال

This is because the verbs now agree with a masculine singular subject.

Yes, very often. It is a very productive pattern in Egyptian Arabic.

Examples:

• خرج من غير ما يقول حاجة = He left without saying anything
• نامت من غير ما تطفي النور = She slept without turning off the light
• مشيت من غير ما أشوفه = I left without seeing him

So once you learn من غير ما + verb, you can use it in many everyday sentences.