Introduction

     In Egyptian, ايه رايك can precede a suggestion. This reveals a course of action that the speaker is prepared to take or a course of action they think someone else should take. This is in contrast to a typical question using the phrase 'what's your opinion' as in 'What's your opinion of traveling during the COVID pandemic?' In this question, the speaker does not reveal that they are willing to travel but are simply interested in the thoughts of the listener.
     The words طب and بقى often accompany this phrase. As you will see below, the conditional marker لو can accompany this phrase, but it is more common to leave it out. It is also worth noting that the complementizer إن is generally not inserted between ايه رايك and the verb when ايه رايك is introducing a suggestion. In the corpus CALM, there are 44 sentences in which ايه رايك precedes a suggestion. Only one of them contains the phrase ايه رايك إن.
     ايه رايك نعمل
     ايه رايك لو
        present tense + ايه رايك لو
         past tense + ايه رايك لو
     ايه رايك أما

     The phrase ايه رايك can appear with the conditional marker لو; however, it does not appear with اذا in the corpus. Although ايه رايك can appear with لو, it does so less frequent than without لو: Of the 44 instances of ايه رايك used to introduce a suggestion, لو was only used in 14 of the sentences (32% of the time).
     An interesting trend appears in the corpus with regard to the tense of the verb that follows ايه رايك لو. Of the 14 sentences that include لو , only 4 have a past tense verb following لو. This is not what we might expect since past tense verbs typically follow لو.

     The phrase ايه رايك may also appear with أما; however, it may not be particularly common (it only appeared once in the corpus).