صاحبي بيشرب شاي بعد الفطار.

صاحبي means my friend.

It is made of:

• صاحب = friend / companion
• -ي = my

So صاحبي literally means friend-my, which is how Arabic says my friend.

In Egyptian Arabic, this usually refers to a male friend. If you want to say my female friend, you would usually say صاحبتي.

It can sometimes mean my boyfriend, depending on context, tone, and who is speaking. But in a simple sentence like this, the most natural reading is usually my friend or my buddy.

So context matters a lot. If there is no special context, learners should usually understand صاحبي here as my friend.

بيشرب means he drinks or he is drinking, depending on context.

It comes from the verb شرب = to drink.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بيـ often marks the normal present tense
• يشرب is the he drinks form of the verb

So:

• بيشرب = he drinks / he is drinking

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is a very common marker for the present tense.

So:

• يشرب is the basic verb form
• بيشرب is the usual present-tense form in everyday Egyptian speech

This بـ often gives the sense of:

• habitual present: he drinks
• ongoing present: he is drinking

The exact meaning depends on the sentence and situation.

It can mean either one.

Egyptian Arabic often uses the same present form for both:

• he drinks
• he is drinking

In this sentence, because of بعد الفطار (after breakfast), it most naturally sounds like a habitual action:

• My friend drinks tea after breakfast

But in the right context, it could also describe what is happening now.

Because the subject is already stated: صاحبي.

Arabic does not need a separate he here. The sentence already says who is doing the action:

• صاحبي = my friend
• بيشرب = drinks

So صاحبي بيشرب is enough for my friend drinks.

You could add هو in some contexts for emphasis, but it is not needed in a normal sentence like this.

Because صاحبي is treated as third person masculine singular: he.

In Egyptian Arabic:

• بيشرب = he drinks
• بتشرب = she drinks or you drink (depending on context)

So if the sentence were about my female friend, you would usually say:

• صاحبتي بتشرب شاي بعد الفطار

Because Arabic does not have an indefinite article like English a / an.

So:

• شاي can mean tea, some tea, or a tea, depending on context

In this sentence, English naturally says tea with no article anyway:

• My friend drinks tea after breakfast

If Arabic wants to make a noun definite, it usually adds ال:

• الشاي = the tea

But here شاي is indefinite/general, which is very natural.

Because meals and other familiar time expressions are often said with the definite article in Arabic.

So:

• الفطار = the breakfast, but in natural English we usually just say breakfast

That means:

• بعد الفطار = after breakfast

Even though Arabic uses ال, the best English translation is usually not after the breakfast, but simply after breakfast.

بعد means after.

So:

• بعد الفطار = after breakfast

It is followed by a noun phrase here. Very literally, the structure is:

• after + the breakfast

Egyptian Arabic can also use a longer structure like بعد ما... before a verb, for example:

• بعد ما يفطر = after he has breakfast

But in your sentence, بعد الفطار is shorter and very natural.

Yes, in this sentence it is quite similar to English:

• صاحبي = my friend
• بيشرب = drinks
• شاي = tea
• بعد الفطار = after breakfast

So the order is basically:

• subject + verb + object + time expression

That is a very common and natural order in Egyptian Arabic.

A common pronunciation would be:

ṣaḥbi biyishrab shāy baʿd el-fiṭār

A simpler learner-friendly version is:

sahbi biyishrab shay ba‘d el-fitar

A few sound notes:

• ص is a heavier, emphatic s
• ح is a stronger, breathier h
• ش = sh
• ع in بعد is a throat sound that English does not have
• ط in الفطار is an emphatic t

If you say it approximately as sahbi biyishrab shay ba‘d el-fitar, you will be understood.

It is more likely talking about a habit.

Because the sentence says after breakfast, it sounds like something your friend regularly does:

• My friend drinks tea after breakfast

If you wanted to strongly emphasize a one-time action happening right now, Egyptian Arabic would usually rely on context, intonation, or extra words rather than changing this verb form completely.