التليفون بايظ ومش شغال.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation is:

it-tilifōn bāyez wi mish shaghghāl

You may also hear something like et-telefōn bāyez we mish shaghghāl depending on the speaker.

A quick breakdown:

• التليفون → it-tilifōn / et-telefōn
• بايظ → bāyez
• و → wi / we
• مش → mish
• شغال → shaghghāl

The exact vowels vary a little by region and speaker, but this will sound natural and be understood.

Because in Arabic, the present tense usually does not use a separate word for is / am / are.

So:

• التليفون بايظ literally looks like the phone broken
• but it means the phone is broken

This is completely normal in Egyptian Arabic. The verb to be is simply omitted in present-tense descriptions.

التليفون means the phone / the telephone.

It is a very common everyday word in Egyptian Arabic and is basically a borrowed word related to telephone.

The ال at the beginning is the definite article, meaning the.

So:

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

Because ت is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when ال comes before a sun letter, the ل sound is not pronounced. Instead, the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: التليفون
• pronounced: it-tilifōn or et-telefōn

You still write ال, but in speech the l disappears and the t gets stronger.

بايظ means something like:

• broken
• defective
• messed up
• out of order

With a device like a phone, it usually means the phone has something wrong with it, not just that it happens to be off at the moment.

This word is very common in Egyptian Arabic for things that are spoiled, ruined, or not functioning properly.

شغال literally means working, running, or operating.

With machines and devices, it means:

• on
• functioning
• working properly

So مش شغال means not working.

A useful thing to know is that شغال can also mean busy or working when talking about a person in other contexts, but with a phone here it clearly means functioning.

Because مش is the normal way to negate nouns, adjectives, and participles in Egyptian Arabic.

Here, شغال is acting like an adjective/participle meaning working.

So:

• شغال = working
• مش شغال = not working

A verbal alternative is also possible:

• التليفون ما بيشتغلش = the phone doesn't work

The difference is roughly:

• مش شغال = a description of its current state
• ما بيشتغلش = a more verbal way of saying it does not work

Both are natural in Egyptian Arabic.

They are very close, but not identical.

• بايظ focuses on the phone being broken / defective
• مش شغال focuses on the fact that it is not functioning

Using both together is natural and adds emphasis:

• It’s broken, and it’s not working

In everyday speech, people often stack near-synonyms like this for clarity or frustration.

Because التليفون is treated as a masculine singular noun in Egyptian Arabic.

So the masculine forms are used:

• بايظ
• شغال

If the noun were feminine, you would normally use:

• بايظة
• شغالة

For example, with a feminine noun, the ending often changes to -a / -ah in pronunciation.

Yes, this is normal.

In Arabic, descriptions usually come after the noun, and in sentences like this the pattern is:

subject + description

So:

• التليفون بايظ = the phone is broken

Also, there is an important difference between:

• التليفون بايظ = the phone is broken
• التليفون البايظ = the broken phone

The first is a full sentence.
The second is a noun phrase.

Yes, it sounds very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

Clues include:

• مش for negation
• بايظ as a common colloquial adjective
• شغال in the sense of working
• تليفون as a very everyday spoken word

In more formal Standard Arabic, you would usually choose different wording, but this sentence is exactly the kind of thing you would hear in normal Egyptian conversation.

Yes, absolutely.

Both of these are natural:

• التليفون بايظ = the phone is broken
• التليفون مش شغال = the phone isn’t working

Using both together just makes the complaint stronger or clearer:

• التليفون بايظ ومش شغال = The phone is broken and not working