انا عايز القهوة سادة، وصاحبي عايزها مظبوط، واختي بتحبها زيادة.

I want plain coffee, my friend wants his medium-sweet, and my sister likes hers very sweet.

Breakdown of انا عايز القهوة سادة، وصاحبي عايزها مظبوط، واختي بتحبها زيادة.

• انا: I
• قهوة: coffee
• عايز: to want
• صاحب: male friend

Questions & Answers about انا عايز القهوة سادة، وصاحبي عايزها مظبوط، واختي بتحبها زيادة.

Why does the sentence use عايز instead of a verb meaning want?

In Egyptian Arabic, عايز is the normal everyday way to say want for a male speaker. It originally comes from an active participle, not a simple verb in the same way as English want.

So:

• أنا عايز = I want said by a man
• أنا عايزة = I want said by a woman

This is much more natural in Egyptian speech than using a more formal verb like أريد, which sounds Modern Standard Arabic or very formal.

In this sentence:

• أنا عايز القهوة سادة = I want the coffee plain

• صاحبي عايزها مظبوط = My friend wants it medium

  So even though عايز looks like an adjective or participle, it functions very naturally as want in Egyptian Arabic.

If عايز means want, why doesn’t it change like a normal verb here?

Because in Egyptian Arabic, عايز behaves differently from many regular verbs. It acts like a participle/adjective-like form, so it agrees with the subject mainly in gender and number, not with a full set of past/present verb endings in this kind of structure.

For example:

• أنا عايز = I want (male speaker)
• أنا عايزة = I want (female speaker)
• هو عايز = he wants
• هي عايزة = she wants

So the key change you notice most often is:

• عايز for masculine
• عايزة for feminine

That is why the speaker says أنا عايز, but if the speaker were female, it would be أنا عايزة.