الكلب نبح بعد ما عض صاحبي.

A natural pronunciation is:

il-kalb nabaḥ baʿd ma ʿaḍḍ ṣāḥbi

A few sound notes:

• ḥ = a strong h sound, from ح
• ʿ = the sound ع
• ḍ = an emphatic d sound, from ض
• ṣ = an emphatic s sound, from ص

So عض is not just ad; it is more like ʿaḍḍ, with a doubled final consonant.

الـ is the Arabic definite article, meaning the.

So:

• كلب = a dog / dog
• الكلب = the dog

In this sentence, الكلب means the dog.

Here, بعد ما means after.

So:

• بعد ما عض صاحبي = after he/it bit my friend

In this structure, ما is not negation. It is just part of the very common Levantine expression بعد ما = after.

This is much more natural in spoken Levantine than a more formal structure like بعد أن.

Because Arabic verbs already contain subject information.

عض by itself is a past-tense verb meaning he bit or it bit.

Arabic often does not need a separate subject pronoun if the verb already shows it. So instead of saying:

after it bit my friend

Arabic can simply say:

بعد ما عض صاحبي

The subject is understood from the verb and from context.

Because no new subject is introduced after بعد ما.

The sentence starts with الكلب = the dog, and then the next verb عض appears without another noun or pronoun subject. So the most natural reading is that the same subject continues:

The dog barked after it bit my friend.

If you wanted to make a different subject clear, Arabic would usually say it explicitly. For example:

• بعد ما صاحبي عضّه = after my friend bit him
• بعد ما الولد عض صاحبي = after the boy bit my friend

In everyday Levantine, صاحبي is a very common way to say my friend or my buddy.

• صاحبي sounds natural and colloquial
• صديقي is understandable, but it sounds more formal or more like Modern Standard Arabic

So for spoken Levantine, صاحبي is exactly the kind of word you would expect here.

The -ي is the possessive suffix meaning my.

So:

• صاحب = friend / companion
• صاحبي = my friend

Arabic often shows possession by attaching a suffix directly to the noun, instead of using a separate word like my.

Yes, in this sentence صاحبي normally means my male friend.

That is because صاحب is grammatically masculine. For a feminine form, you might expect صاحبتي, but in actual Levantine usage that can sometimes sound like my girlfriend, depending on context.

So in everyday speech, speakers may choose different words depending on exactly what they mean. But in this sentence, صاحبي is naturally understood as my male friend.

Yes. Both are possible.

• الكلب نبح = The dog barked
• نبح الكلب = The dog barked

In spoken Levantine, subject + verb order is very common, so الكلب نبح sounds natural and conversational.

The verb-first version is also possible, but it can sound a bit more narrative or a bit closer to more formal styles, depending on context.

Because the verb is عَضّ in the past tense, with a doubled final consonant.

So it is pronounced:

ʿaḍḍ

not

ʿaḍa

This doubling is part of the verb itself. It comes from the root for biting, and the final consonant is geminated, meaning held a little longer.

That is why عض صاحبي sounds like ʿaḍḍ ṣāḥbi = he/it bit my friend.