احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم.

Yes. احنا means we, and it is the normal everyday Egyptian Arabic form.

A few useful comparisons:

• احنا = we
• MSA/Classical-style Arabic usually has نحن
• In Egyptian speech, احنا is much more natural

So in this sentence, احنا is simply the subject: we.

In Egyptian Arabic, the prefix بـ is commonly used with the present tense to express habitual or ongoing actions.

So:

• نتكلم can relate to speak / talk
• بنتكلم often means we talk, we are talking, or we do talk, depending on context

In this sentence, because of كل يوم (every day), it clearly gives a habitual meaning:

• احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم = We talk about work every day

This بـ is one of the most important features of Egyptian present-tense verbs.

It helps to break the verb apart:

• بـ = present/habitual marker
• نـ... = we marker
• ـتكلم = the verb stem related to talk/speak

So بنتكلم literally builds as:

• بـ + ن + تكلم

This is completely normal in Egyptian Arabic. The نـ marks first person plural (we), and the بـ marks the present/habitual.

The base verb is اتكلم / يتكلم, which means to speak or to talk.

In real usage, English talk and speak often overlap here. In this sentence, بنتكلم is best understood as:

• we talk
• we are talking

Because the sentence includes عن الشغل (about work), talk is usually the most natural English match.

عن means about.

The verb اتكلم often takes عن when you say what someone is talking about:

• اتكلم عن... = talk about...
• بنتكلم عن الشغل = we talk about work

This is very common and works much like English talk about.

Literally, الشغل contains الـ, so it is the work on the surface. But in Egyptian Arabic, الشغل is very commonly used in a general sense to mean:

• work
• the job
• business related to work

So in this sentence, عن الشغل most naturally means:

• about work

not necessarily about a specific piece of work.

Also, الشغل is a very common colloquial word. In more formal Arabic, learners often meet العمل, but in everyday Egyptian speech الشغل is extremely common.

Because Arabic normally does not use a separate present-tense verb to be the way English does.

In English, you say:

• We are talking

In Egyptian Arabic, the verb itself carries the meaning, so:

• احنا بنتكلم

already means we talk / we are talking

This is normal in Arabic. You do not need a separate word for are here.

In Arabic, time expressions like كل يوم often work directly without a preposition.

• كل = every
• يوم = day
• كل يوم = every day

So the phrase functions naturally as an adverbial expression meaning every day.

This is similar to English, where we also say every day, not in every day.

Yes, you could. Egyptian Arabic allows some flexibility in word order, especially with time expressions.

The original sentence:

• احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم

is very natural.

But you could also say:

• كل يوم احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل

This puts more emphasis on every day.

So the original order is neutral and natural, but moving كل يوم to the front is also possible for emphasis.

A natural pronunciation would be something like:

• e7na بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم
• more roughly in English letters: ehna bnetkallem ʿan ish-shoghl koll yom

A few pronunciation notes:

• احنا = ehna / eħna
• بنتكلم = bnetkallem
• عن has the letter ع, which has no exact English equivalent
• الشغل is often pronounced ish-shoghl because ال before ش assimilates in pronunciation
• كل is often heard as koll
• يوم = yom

So although it is written الشغل, it is pronounced more like ish-shoghl, not al-shoghl.

Because ش is a sun letter. In Arabic, when الـ comes before a sun letter, the ل sound assimilates to the next consonant in pronunciation.

So:

• written: الشغل
• pronounced: ash-shoghl or in Egyptian more like ish-shoghl

This happens in many words:

• الشمس is pronounced ish-shams
• الشارع is pronounced ish-shāriʿ

So the spelling stays the same, but the pronunciation changes.

Yes. That is very common.

Since بنتكلم already shows we, the pronoun احنا is not strictly necessary.

So both are possible:

• احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم
• بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم

Including احنا can add clarity, emphasis, or contrast. Leaving it out often sounds perfectly natural in conversation.

A very common Egyptian negation pattern is ما...ش around the verb.

So:

• احنا بنتكلم عن الشغل كل يوم becomes
• احنا ما بنتكلمش عن الشغل كل يوم

This means:

• We don’t talk about work every day

Breakdown:

• ما before the verb
• بنتكلم
• ش after the verb

This ما...ش pattern is one of the most important negation patterns in Egyptian Arabic.

It is specifically colloquial Egyptian Arabic.

Why?

• احنا is colloquial Egyptian
• بنتكلم with the everyday spoken pattern is colloquial
• الشغل is especially common in spoken language

A more MSA-like version would be different, such as using:

• نحن نتحدث عن العمل كل يوم

So if you are learning Egyptian Arabic for conversation, the original sentence is exactly the kind of structure you want to know.