صاحبي قال لي كلمة السر على التليفون، وانا كتبتها في الملف.

My male friend told me the password on the phone, and I wrote it in the file.

Breakdown of صاحبي قال لي كلمة السر على التليفون، وانا كتبتها في الملف.

• انا: I
• ال: the
• في: in
• ي: my

Questions & Answers about صاحبي قال لي كلمة السر على التليفون، وانا كتبتها في الملف.

What does صاحبي mean exactly? Is it just my friend?

Yes. صاحبي in Egyptian Arabic means my friend, my buddy, or my pal.

It comes from صاحب (friend / companion) + ـي (my).

A learner should also know the nuance:

• صاحبي sounds very natural and colloquial in Egyptian.
• It is often more casual and conversational than صديقي, which sounds more formal or closer to Standard Arabic.

So in everyday Egyptian, صاحبي is a very normal choice.

Why does the sentence say قال لي? Why not just attach me directly to the verb?

Because Arabic uses لـ (to) with قال in this kind of sentence.

• قال = he said
• لي = to me

So قال لي literally means he said to me, and in natural English that often becomes he told me.

This is a very common Arabic pattern:

• قال لي = he told me
• قال لها = he told her
• قال لهم = he told them

So even if English says told me, Arabic often uses the structure said to me.

What does كلمة السر literally mean?