اخبار الشغل كويسة النهارده.

أخبار is the plural of خبر, which literally means news or piece of news.

In everyday Arabic, especially in expressions like this, أخبار often means something like news about, how things are with, or the situation/status of something.

So أخبار الشغل is literally the news of work, but naturally it means how work is going or the situation at work.

This is a very common Arabic pattern.

أخبار is a non-human plural, and in Arabic, non-human plurals are very often treated grammatically like singular feminine when they take an adjective.

So:

• أخبار = plural in meaning
• كويسة = feminine singular adjective

That is completely normal.

A learner might expect a plural adjective, but Arabic usually does not do that with non-human plurals.

كويسة means good in Egyptian Arabic.

It is the Egyptian colloquial form of good for a feminine singular noun/agreement pattern.

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more likely see جيدة or جيّدة instead.

So كويسة is very natural in spoken Egyptian Arabic, but it is not the usual formal/standard form.

In Arabic, the verb to be in the present tense is usually omitted.

So a sentence like:

• أخبار الشغل كويسة

literally looks like:

• news of work good

but it means:

• Work news is good
• or more naturally, Things at work are good

This is normal Arabic sentence structure. You only usually say a form of to be in past/future or in certain other structures.

الشغل means work.

In Egyptian Arabic, شغل is a very common everyday word and can refer to:

• work in general
• a job
• business/tasks
• what is going on at work

So in this sentence, الشغل most naturally means work or things related to work.

Because أخبار الشغل focuses on the state/news of work, not just work as a concept.

Compare the feeling:

• الشغل كويس = Work is good / The job is good
• أخبار الشغل كويسة = Things at work are good / Work is going well

So أخبار الشغل sounds more like talking about the overall situation, updates, or how things are going.

Yes, النهارده is the Egyptian Arabic word for today.

It is very common in speech. You may also hear it pronounced a bit differently depending on the speaker, such as:

• en-naharda
• il-naharda

In Modern Standard Arabic, the usual word would be اليوم.

So النهارده is a strong clue that this sentence is Egyptian Arabic.

In Arabic, time expressions like today, tomorrow, now, etc. are often placed at the end of the sentence, and that sounds very natural.

So:

• أخبار الشغل كويسة النهارده

means Things at work are good today.

You could move time expressions around in some contexts, but putting النهارده at the end is very normal and idiomatic.

A natural Egyptian pronunciation would be roughly:

akhbār ish-shughl kwayyisa en-naharda

A few notes:

• أخبار = akhbār
• الشغل often sounds like ish-shughl because the ال before ش assimilates
• كويسة is often pronounced kwayyisa or kuwayyisa
• النهارده is often en-naharda or in-naharda

So the sentence flows something like:

akhbār ish-shughl kwayyisa en-naharda

Because ش is a sun letter.

In Arabic, when ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال is not pronounced. Instead, the following consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الشغل
• pronounced: ish-shughl rather than al-shughl

This is a pronunciation rule, not a spelling change.

Yes, very much so.

Clues include:

• كويسة instead of a more formal adjective like جيدة
• النهارده instead of اليوم
• the overall everyday conversational style

A more formal version would be quite different. This sentence sounds like normal spoken Egyptian Arabic.

Yes, possibly, depending on tone and meaning.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• كويسة = good, fine
• حلوة = literally sweet, but often nice, good, pleasant

So:

• أخبار الشغل كويسة النهارده = Things at work are good today
• أخبار الشغل حلوة النهارده = Things at work are nice/good today

Both can work, but كويسة is a very straightforward and neutral choice.

Yes. This is a useful pattern.

For example:

• أخبار البيت إيه؟ = How are things at home?
• أخبار الدراسة إيه؟ = How is الدراسة going? / How are studies going?
• أخبارك إيه؟ = How are you? / What’s up with you?

So أخبار + noun/pronoun is a very common way to ask or describe how things are going.