جوزي اشترى خبز.

A good broad Levantine-style approximation is jozi ishtara khobez.

A few sound notes:

• ج is often like English j, though in some areas it can sound softer.
• خ is the throat sound in Scottish loch or German Bach.
• خبز may sound like khobez, khubiz, or khobz, depending on region and speaking style.

جوزي means my husband in everyday Levantine Arabic.

It is made of:

• جوز = husband in dialect
• -ي = my

So جوزي literally means my husband.

جوزي is the common colloquial Levantine way to say my husband.
زوجي is also correct, but it sounds more formal or more like Modern Standard Arabic.

So:

• جوزي = everyday Levantine
• زوجي = more formal / standard

The -ي is a possessive suffix meaning my.

Examples:

• جوز = husband
• جوزي = my husband
• بيت = house
• بيتي = my house

This is a very common pattern in Arabic.

اشترى is the past tense, third-person masculine singular.

It means he bought.

That matches جوزي, because my husband is:

• third person
• masculine
• singular

So the sentence structure is basically:

جوزي = my husband
اشترى = bought
خبز = bread

Because Arabic verbs already contain information about the subject.

In اشترى, the verb already tells you the subject is he. Since the sentence also includes جوزي, there is no need to add a separate pronoun like هو.

So Arabic often avoids extra pronouns when the meaning is already clear.

Because subject + verb + object is very common in spoken Levantine Arabic.

So جوزي اشترى خبز is a natural everyday order:

• جوزي = subject
• اشترى = verb
• خبز = object

You can also hear اشترى جوزي خبز, but starting with the subject is especially common in conversation.

Because خبز here is indefinite and general. It means bread or some bread, not the bread.

Compare:

• خبز = bread / some bread
• الخبز = the bread

So the sentence means that he bought bread in general, not one specific previously mentioned bread.

Because Arabic often leaves some unstated when it is obvious from context.

In English, bought bread often already implies bought some bread. Arabic works similarly here.

So اشترى خبز naturally means:

• he bought bread
• or he bought some bread

Here خبز is a mass noun. It refers to bread as a substance or general item, not to a counted piece.

That is why it works well without a number or an article.

If you wanted to count pieces or loaves, you would usually use another word, depending on dialect, such as a word meaning loaf or piece of bread.

That final ى is called alif maqṣūra. In standard Arabic spelling, it represents the final -a / -ā sound of this verb.

So even in dialect writing, many people keep the standard spelling اشترى.

This is one of those cases where the spelling reflects standard Arabic conventions, even if everyday pronunciation is a bit different.

Usually, a woman would say جوزي, because it means my husband.

So this sentence most naturally sounds like something said by a female speaker talking about her husband.

A common Modern Standard Arabic version would be:

زوجي اشترى خبزًا

You could also say:

اشترى زوجي خبزًا

Compared with the Levantine sentence:

• جوزي becomes the more formal زوجي
• case endings like -ًا appear in full MSA
• spoken Levantine usually drops those endings

So جوزي اشترى خبز is clearly colloquial, while زوجي اشترى خبزًا is standard/formal.