زميلتي طبعت الورق وادتهولي قبل الاجتماع.

زميلة means female colleague.

When you add -ي, it becomes زميلتي = my female colleague.

So the breakdown is:

• زميلة = a female colleague
• زميلتي = my female colleague

The word is feminine because it refers to a woman. If it were a male colleague, you would say زميلي = my male colleague.

Arabic often does not need an explicit subject pronoun if the subject is already clear.

Here, the subject is already given at the start:

• زميلتي = my female colleague

So after that, the verbs can simply follow:

• طبعت = printed
• وادتهولي = and gave it to me

English usually needs she, but Arabic often doesn’t. Once the subject is clear, repeating it is unnecessary.

This is a very common learner question, because in normal Arabic spelling short vowels are not written.

The written form طبعت can represent different spoken forms depending on context, including:

• ṭabaʿt / ṭabaʿet = I printed
• ṭabaʿat / ṭabaʿet = she printed

So how do you know which one it is?

You know from the subject:

• زميلتي طبعت = my female colleague printed

Because زميلتي is a third-person feminine subject, طبعت must be understood as she printed.

So in Arabic, context often tells you which meaning is intended.

الورق literally means the paper, but in Egyptian Arabic it is very often used as a collective noun meaning:

• paper
• papers
• documents
• sheets

So in this sentence, it can naturally mean the paper or the papers, depending on context.

This is very normal in Egyptian Arabic. Speakers often prefer الورق in everyday speech instead of a more formal plural like الأوراق.

Because الورق is treated grammatically as a singular masculine collective noun in Egyptian Arabic.

So when referring back to it, the speaker uses the masculine singular object pronoun:

• -ه = it / him

That is why:

• ادتهولي = she gave it to me

Even if natural English translation is she gave the papers to me, Arabic is still referring back to الورق as a singular collective.

It is a combination of several parts:

• و = and
• ادّت = she gave
• -ه = it
• -لي = to me

So:

• وادتهولي = and she gave it to me

A slightly expanded breakdown is:

• ادّت = she gave
• ادّته = she gave it
• ادّتهولي = she gave it to me

That extra و / u sound before لي helps connect the pronouns smoothly in speech.

This kind of clitic stacking is very common in Egyptian Arabic.

In Arabic writing, the conjunction و (and) is normally written attached to the following word.

So:

• و + ادتهولي → وادتهولي

This is just standard Arabic spelling behavior. It does not change the meaning; it simply means and gave it to me.

Yes, the word order is completely normal.

• قبل = before
• الاجتماع = the meeting

So:

• قبل الاجتماع = before the meeting

In Arabic, time expressions like this often come at the end of the sentence:

• زميلتي طبعت الورق وادتهولي قبل الاجتماع
• My female colleague printed the papers and gave them to me before the meeting

That placement sounds natural.

It can do both.

In a sentence like this, و literally means and, but because the actions happen in sequence, English may understand it as:

• and
• and then

So:

• طبعت الورق وادتهولي can feel like
• she printed the papers and gave them to me or
• she printed the papers and then gave them to me

Arabic often uses simple و where English might choose a more specific connector.

A rough pronunciation would be:

zmeelti tabaʿet el waraʔ waddethūli abl el-egtimāʿ

A few notes:

• زميلتي → zmeelti
• طبعت often sounds like tabaʿet
• الورق → el waraʔ
• وادتهولي → waddethūli
• الاجتماع in Egyptian is often el-egtimāʿ

Exact pronunciation can vary a bit by speaker and region, but this is a reasonable everyday Egyptian-style reading.

Yes. Arabic often allows both a more compact and a more separated style.

A learner-friendly separated version might look like:

• زميلتي طبعت الورق وادّته لي

This still means my female colleague printed the papers and gave them to me.

But in very natural Egyptian speech, speakers commonly combine these pronouns tightly:

• ادّتهولي

So the original sentence sounds very normal and colloquial. The compact form is something you will hear a lot.