صاحبي توظف.

صاحبي means my friend or my buddy.

In this sentence, it refers to a male friend. If you wanted to say my female friend, you would usually say صاحبتي in Levantine.

The -ي is the possessive ending meaning my.

So:

• صاحب = friend / companion
• صاحبي = my friend

This is very common in Arabic: you often attach possessive endings directly to the noun instead of using a separate word like my.

Here توظف means got a job, became employed, or was hired.

It does not mean employed someone else.
It describes what happened to the friend: he himself got employment.

A helpful way to think of it is:

• وظّف = he employed someone
• توظّف = he got employed / he found work

Yes. توظف here is in the past tense.

So the sentence means that this already happened:

• صاحبي توظف = My friend got a job

If you wanted the present meaning, you would use a different form, such as something like صاحبي عم يشتغل depending on what exactly you mean.

Because Arabic verbs already include the subject information.

In توظف, the verb itself tells you the subject is he. So Arabic does not need a separate word like he here.

That is why:

• توظف = he got employed

Then صاحبي is added to tell you who that he is.

Because صاحبي is the noun being talked about, and توظف is a masculine singular verb that matches it.

The sentence structure here is very natural in Levantine:

• صاحبي = topic / subject
• توظف = what happened to him

So literally it is something like:

• My friend — got employed

You would usually say:

• صاحبتي توظفت

That means My female friend got a job.

Notice that both words change:

• صاحبي → صاحبتي = my female friend
• توظف → توظفت = she got employed

It is very natural in Levantine Arabic, especially because of صاحبي.

The verb توظف is also understandable in Standard Arabic, but if you wanted a more clearly Standard Arabic version, you might say:

• صديقي توظّف

So:

• صاحبي توظف = colloquial, natural Levantine
• صديقي توظّف = more formal / more Standard Arabic

Most naturally, it means my friend got a job or my friend was hired.

It focuses on the event of becoming employed, not just the general state of having work.

If you want to say simply that your friend is employed or has work, Arabic might use other expressions depending on dialect and context.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is roughly:

• ṣāḥbī twaẓẓaf

Very roughly for an English speaker:

• SAAH-bee twa-ZZAF

A few notes:

• ṣ is a heavier, emphatic s
• ḥ is a strong h sound from the throat
• ẓẓ is a doubled consonant, so it sounds held a bit longer

You do not need to pronounce every written short vowel, because Arabic script usually leaves them out.

Yes. صديقي توظف is also correct and means the same thing.

The difference is mostly tone/register:

• صاحبي = more conversational, more colloquial, very common in speech
• صديقي = more formal or more bookish

For everyday Levantine conversation, صاحبي توظف sounds very natural.