صاحبتي بتاكل عيش وجبنة كل يوم.

It can mean either my female friend or my girlfriend. In Egyptian Arabic, صاحبتي is often used for both, and the intended meaning depends on context.

It breaks down like this:

• صاحبة = a female friend / female companion
• -ي = my

When the -ي suffix is added, the ة is pronounced as t, so صاحبة + ي becomes صاحبتي.

So the word literally means my female friend/companion.

Because Arabic often expresses possession by adding a suffix directly to the noun.

Here:

• صاحبة = female friend
• صاحبتي = my female friend

So instead of saying something like my friend, Egyptian Arabic attaches -ي to the end of the word.

This is very common:

• كتابي = my book
• بيتي = my house
• صاحبتي = my female friend

بتاكل is the Egyptian Arabic present-tense form used with a third-person feminine singular subject, so it matches صاحبتي.

Here the subject is feminine singular, so the verb must agree with it:

• هو بياكل = he eats
• هي بتاكل = she eats

Since صاحبتي is feminine singular, the sentence uses بتاكل.

In Egyptian Arabic, the prefix بـ usually marks the normal present tense, especially for habitual or ongoing actions.

So بتاكل means something like:

• she eats
• she is eating
  depending on context

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

• she eats bread and cheese every day

So the بـ here helps show regular present-time action.

Because صاحبتي is already the subject, so a separate pronoun is not necessary.

Arabic often does not repeat the pronoun if the subject noun is already stated.

So:

• صاحبتي بتاكل... = My friend eats...

You could say هي for emphasis, but normally it would be unnecessary here.

In Egyptian Arabic, عيش is the everyday word for bread.

So:

• عيش = bread
• خبز = bread, but this is more formal / more Standard Arabic

A learner often notices that عيش literally also relates to life/living, but in Egypt it is the normal spoken word for bread.

So in a natural Egyptian sentence, عيش is exactly what you would expect.

Because they are being used in a general, non-specific sense.

So عيش وجبنة means:

• bread and cheese
• not the bread and the cheese

This is very natural when talking about what someone regularly eats.

Compare:

• بتاكل عيش وجبنة = she eats bread and cheese
• بتاكل العيش والجبنة = she eats the bread and the cheese
  (more specific, referring to particular bread and cheese)

كل يوم means every day.

It tells you that the action is habitual, not just happening once.

Putting time expressions like كل يوم at the end of the sentence is very common in Egyptian Arabic:

• صاحبتي بتاكل عيش وجبنة كل يوم = My friend eats bread and cheese every day.

That word order is completely natural.

Here و is the conjunction and, so وجبنة is really:

• و + جبنة
• and + cheese

In pronunciation, it is usually wi gibna in Egyptian Arabic.

A very important pronunciation point:

• ج in Egyptian Arabic is usually pronounced like g in go

So جبنة is pronounced roughly gibna, not jubna.

A common pronunciation would be roughly:

ṣaḥbti bitākol ʿēsh wi gibna kull yōm

A simpler English-friendly approximation:

sahbti betaakol eesh wi gibna kull yom

A few useful pronunciation notes:

• ص is a heavier, deeper s
• ع in عيش is a consonant that has no exact English equivalent
• ج in Egyptian Arabic sounds like g
• صاحبتي may sound compressed in fast speech, closer to sahbti

Yes. This is clearly Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, not Standard Arabic.

Some clues are:

• بتاكل for the present tense in spoken Egyptian
• عيش for bread
• overall everyday spoken style

A Standard Arabic version would look different, for example:

• صديقتي تأكل خبزًا وجبنًا كل يوم

But that would sound formal or bookish in everyday conversation. The original sentence is the natural Egyptian way to say it.

You would change both the subject word and the verb agreement:

• صاحبي بياكل عيش وجبنة كل يوم.

That means My male friend / my boyfriend eats bread and cheese every day.

Compare:

• صاحبتي بتاكل = my female friend eats
• صاحبي بياكل = my male friend eats

So both the noun and the verb reflect gender.