صاحبي بيحكي قصة من الشغل.

صاحبي means my friend or my buddy in Egyptian Arabic.

It comes from صاحب + ـي:

• صاحب = friend / companion
• ـي = my

So:

• صاحب = a friend
• صاحبي = my friend

In everyday Egyptian speech, صاحبي is very common and natural.

Both can mean my friend, but they belong to different styles.

• صاحبي = common, colloquial Egyptian Arabic
• صديقي = more formal / MSA-style

A learner will hear صاحبي much more often in everyday Egyptian conversation.
So this sentence sounds natural and spoken, not textbook-formal.

Yes. صاحبي normally refers to a male friend.

If the friend were female, you would usually say:

• صاحبتي = my female friend

Also, the verb here is بيحكي, which is the he form.
For she, it would be:

• صاحبتي بتحكي قصة من الشغل.

So both the noun and the verb point to a male subject in your sentence.

In Egyptian Arabic, بيـ is a very common prefix used with the present tense.

It often marks:

• a present action
• a habitual action
• a general ongoing situation

So بيحكي can mean things like:

• he tells
• he is telling
• he talks / narrates

In this sentence, the most natural understanding is he’s telling or he tells a story, depending on context.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

Egyptian Arabic does not always separate simple present and present progressive the same way English does.

So بيحكي may mean:

• he tells
• he is telling

In this sentence, since there is a specific story, English will often translate it as:

• My friend is telling a story from work.

But in another context, it could be something like:

• My friend tells stories from work.

Because يحكي is a better match for telling a story.

• يحكي = narrate, tell a story, recount
• يقول = say, tell, state

Since the sentence has قصة (a story), بيحكي sounds very natural:

• بيحكي قصة = he’s telling a story

You could use بيقول in other situations, but with قصة, بيحكي is the more idiomatic choice.

قصة means story.

Arabic does not have a separate word for the indefinite article a / an.
So قصة by itself can mean:

• a story

If it were definite, the story, it would be:

• القصة

So in your sentence:

• بيحكي قصة = he’s telling a story

Literally, من الشغل means from work.

In natural English, that often becomes:

• from work
• about work
• from his job
• work-related

So the idea is that the story comes out of his work experience.

In other words, it is a story from work — a story connected to something that happened at work.

That is very normal in Arabic.

Arabic often uses the definite article in places where English does not.
So الشغل can mean:

• the work
• work
• the job

And in everyday Egyptian, من الشغل is a very common expression for:

• from work
• from the workplace

If you wanted to make it explicitly from his work/job, you could also say:

• من شغله

But من الشغل already sounds very natural.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When الـ comes before a sun letter, the l sound is absorbed into the next consonant.
So الشغل is pronounced roughly like:

• esh-shoghl / ish-shughl depending on accent and transliteration style

Not:

• al-shughl

This is a very common Arabic pronunciation rule.

Because subject + verb order is very common in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

So:

• صاحبي بيحكي قصة من الشغل = My friend is telling a story from work

This is natural, conversational Egyptian.

Arabic can also use verb + subject order, but in everyday Egyptian, starting with the subject is extremely common, especially when the speaker is just making a simple statement.

Yes, depending on context.

In everyday Egyptian, صاحبي most commonly means:

• my friend
• my buddy

But in some contexts, especially modern casual speech, صاحبي / صاحبتي can also refer to:

• boyfriend / girlfriend

Still, if the meaning has already been given to the learner as my friend, then that is the meaning to focus on here.

You would change both the noun and the verb:

• صاحبتي بتحكي قصة من الشغل.

That means:

• My female friend is telling a story from work.

Changes:

• صاحبي → صاحبتي
• بيحكي → بتحكي

So the sentence clearly agrees with a feminine subject.