صاحبتي فاضية بعد الشغل.

صاحبتي can mean either my female friend or my girlfriend, depending on context.

• صاحب = friend / companion / boyfriend
• صاحبة = female friend / girlfriend
• صاحبتي = my female friend / my girlfriend

The ending -ي / -تي here means my.

In Egyptian Arabic, this word is very common, but it can be a little ambiguous. Context usually tells you which meaning is intended.

Because صاحبتي is feminine, and the adjective has to agree with it.

• masculine: فاضي
• feminine: فاضية

So:

• صاحبي فاضي = my male friend is free
• صاحبتي فاضية = my female friend is free

This kind of gender agreement is very important in Arabic.

Here, فاضية means free, available, or not busy.

It can also literally mean empty in other contexts, but with a person it usually means something like:

• free
• available
• not occupied
• having spare time

So in this sentence, it means she is free after work, not that she is physically empty.

In Arabic, the present tense usually does not use a separate word for am / is / are.

So:

• صاحبتي فاضية literally looks like my friend free
• but it means my friend is free

This is normal in both Egyptian Arabic and Standard Arabic for present-time sentences.

If you wanted the past, you would need a verb, for example:

• صاحبتي كانت فاضية = my friend was free

Word by word:

• بعد = after
• الشغل = the work / work

Together, بعد الشغل means after work.

In natural English we usually do not say after the work here, but Arabic often uses the definite article in expressions like this.

In Egyptian Arabic, الشغل is very commonly used to mean work or the job/workday in a general sense.

So بعد الشغل is the normal way to say after work.

If you say بعد شغل, it sounds less natural in this context.

Also compare:

• بعد الشغل = after work
• بعد شغلي = after my work / after I finish my work

So الشغل here is a general everyday expression.

A common pronunciation would be:

Ṣaḥbti fāḍya baʿd eš-šoġl

A more learner-friendly approximation:

sahbti faadya ba‘d esh-shoghl

A few notes:

• صاحبتي is often pronounced more like ساحبتي / sahbti in fast speech, with the middle vowel reduced.
• الشغل sounds like esh-shoghl because the ل in ال assimilates to the ش.

Because ش is a sun letter. In Arabic, when ال comes before a sun letter, the ل is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled.

So:

• written: الشغل
• pronounced: اشّغل / eš-šoġl

This is why learners hear something like esh-shoghl rather than al-shoghl.

Yes, it sounds very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

A few clues:

• صاحبتي is very common in Egyptian speech
• فاضية is a very common Egyptian way to say free / available
• الشغل is everyday colloquial Egyptian for work

In Modern Standard Arabic, you would usually not phrase it exactly this way in ordinary formal writing.

The structure is:

noun + adjective + time phrase

So:

• صاحبتي = my female friend / my girlfriend
• فاضية = free
• بعد الشغل = after work

Literally:

My friend free after work

Natural English:

My friend is free after work

This is a very common Arabic pattern.

Yes, but this order is very natural.

The sentence as given:

صاحبتي فاضية بعد الشغل

You could also move the time phrase for emphasis:

• بعد الشغل صاحبتي فاضية = After work, my friend is free

But the original order is the most straightforward and common for a learner to use.

You would change both the noun and the adjective to masculine:

• صاحبي فاضي بعد الشغل

That means:

My male friend / my boyfriend is free after work

Changes:

• صاحبتي → صاحبي
• فاضية → فاضي

This is a good example of how nouns and adjectives match in gender.

Yes. A common alternative is to use an expression with وقت or مشغولة / مشغول depending on what you want to stress.

For example:

• صاحبتي عندها وقت بعد الشغل = my friend has time after work
• صاحبتي مش مشغولة بعد الشغل = my friend is not busy after work

But صاحبتي فاضية بعد الشغل is short, natural, and very common in speech.

Yes. صاحبتي is feminine, so it refers to a female person.

If you are talking about a male friend, you would say:

• صاحبي

So the sentence itself tells you the person being talked about is female.

No. The meaning is not feminine by itself; the form is feminine because it agrees with a feminine noun.

• masculine: فاضي
• feminine: فاضية

So the adjective changes form depending on who it describes.

Examples:

• أنا فاضي = I’m free. (said by a male)
• أنا فاضية = I’m free. (said by a female)

Usually it is understood from context.

In صاحبتي فاضية بعد الشغل, the most natural interpretation is that she is free after her work / the workday.

Arabic often leaves this kind of thing implied when it is obvious from context.

If you wanted to be more specific, you could say:

• بعد شغلها = after her work
• بعد شغلي = after my work

But in everyday conversation, بعد الشغل is often enough.