وصلت الدعوة لحفلة عيد ميلاد اختي امبارح.

Here وصلت means arrived or came.

So وصلت الدعوة literally means the invitation arrived.

In natural English, depending on context, that could be translated as:

• The invitation arrived yesterday.
• I got the invitation yesterday.

Arabic often expresses this idea with the invitation arrived, even where English might prefer I received the invitation.

Because the subject الدعوة is feminine singular.

• دعوة = invitation
• الدعوة = the invitation

In Egyptian Arabic, when the verb comes before the subject, the verb still agrees in gender with a singular subject. Since الدعوة is feminine, the verb is feminine too:

• وصل = he/it arrived
• وصلت = she/it arrived

So:

• وصلت الدعوة = the invitation arrived

Yes. In unvoweled Arabic writing, وصلت can mean different things depending on context, such as:

• I arrived
• you arrived (to a female)
• she/it arrived

The context tells you which one is intended.

In this sentence, because الدعوة comes right after it, the meaning is clearly:

• The invitation arrived

So here وصلت is not I arrived.

الدعوة means the invitation.

The base word is:

• دعوة = invitation / invite

With الـ added, it becomes definite:

• الدعوة = the invitation

Depending on context, دعوة can sometimes have other meanings in Arabic, but in this sentence it clearly means invitation.

Because د is a sun letter.

The Arabic definite article is written الـ, but with sun letters, the l sound assimilates to the next consonant. So:

• الدعوة is written al-daʿwa
• but pronounced more like ed-daʿwa in Egyptian Arabic

This is very common. The spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

The لـ here means for or to, depending on how you think about it.

• حفلة = party
• لحفلة = for a party / to a party

So:

• الدعوة لحفلة = the invitation for a party / the invitation to a party

In English, we usually say an invitation to a party. In Arabic, لـ is very natural here.

Yes, but it sounds more formal and less Egyptian-colloquial.

In Egyptian Arabic, لـ is the normal, natural choice:

• دعوة لحفلة = invitation to a party

Using إلى would sound more like Modern Standard Arabic or formal speech.

So for everyday Egyptian Arabic, لحفلة is exactly what you would expect.

This is a chain of nouns, often called an iḍāfa or possessive construction.

Let’s break it down:

• حفلة = party
• عيد ميلاد = birthday
• اختي = my sister

Together:

• حفلة عيد ميلاد اختي = my sister’s birthday party

More literally, it is something like:

• party [of] birthday [of] my sister

Arabic often links nouns directly like this, without using of or apostrophe-s.

So the structure is very normal Arabic:

• حفلة
  • عيد ميلاد
    • اختي

Because حفلة is the first noun in a possessive chain.

In Arabic, the first noun in an iḍāfa construction usually does not take الـ, even when the whole phrase is definite.

So:

• حفلة عيد ميلاد اختي = my sister’s birthday party

Even though the whole phrase is definite, حفلة itself stays without الـ.

That is normal Arabic grammar, and it often feels strange to English speakers at first.

اختي means my sister.

It is:

• اخت / أخت = sister
• ـي = my

So:

• اختي = my sister

In more formal spelling, especially in Modern Standard Arabic, you often see:

• أختي

But in casual Egyptian writing, the initial hamza is very often omitted, so اختي is extremely common.

The pronunciation is still basically okhti or ukhti, depending on the speaker and style.

امبارح means yesterday.

It is a very common Egyptian Arabic word. You may also see it spelled:

• إمبارح
• مبارح

All of these are common informal spellings.

So in this sentence:

• امبارح = yesterday

Because time expressions are often placed at the end in Egyptian Arabic.

So:

• وصلت الدعوة لحفلة عيد ميلاد اختي امبارح = The invitation to my sister’s birthday party arrived yesterday

This is very natural word order.

You could move time words around in some contexts, but putting امبارح at the end sounds very normal in everyday Egyptian Arabic.

A natural approximate transliteration would be:

wiṣlit id-daʿwa li-ḥaflit ʿīd ميلād uxti embāriḥ

You may also see slightly different transliterations, such as:

woslet ed-da3wa le-7aflet عيد ميلاد okhti embaare7

A few pronunciation notes:

• وصلت in Egyptian is often closer to wiṣlit or woslet
• الدعوة is pronounced id-daʿwa / ed-daʿwa
• لحفلة is often li-ḥaflit / le-ḥaflet
• اختي is often okhti / ukhti
• امبارح is embāriḥ / embareh

Transliteration varies a lot, so don’t worry if you see different versions.

Literally, it is:

• The invitation to my sister’s birthday party arrived yesterday

But in English, the most natural translation may sometimes be:

• I got the invitation to my sister’s birthday party yesterday

So the Arabic focuses on the invitation arriving, while English may focus on the person receiving it.

Both give the same basic meaning in context.