عندي صديقة بالجامعة.

عندي is made of:

• عند = at, by, with
• -ي = my / me

So literally it means something like at me. In Arabic, that is a very common way to express I have.

So عندي صديقة is literally at me a female friend, but naturally it means I have a female friend.

Because Arabic usually does not use a normal verb equivalent to English to have in sentences like this.

Instead, it often uses a possession structure such as:

• عندي = I have
• عندك = you have
• عنده = he has
• عندها = she has

So this is completely normal Arabic structure, especially in spoken Levantine.

صديقة is the feminine form, meaning female friend.

• صديق = male friend
• صديقة = female friend

The ending ـة is a very common feminine ending in Arabic.

So if you were talking about a male friend, you would say:

عندي صديق بالجامعة

Sometimes English speakers wonder about that because English girlfriend can mean either female friend or romantic partner.

In Arabic, صديقة usually means female friend unless the context clearly suggests romance.

For a romantic girlfriend, people often use other words depending on region and situation, such as حبيبتي or other colloquial expressions.

So in a neutral sentence like this, صديقة is usually understood as a female friend.

Arabic does not have a separate word for the indefinite article a / an.

So:

• صديقة = a female friend
• الصديقة = the female friend

The difference is shown by whether the noun has الـ at the beginning.

That means صديقة by itself already gives the idea of a friend.

بالجامعة is made of:

• بـ = in, at, with, by
• الجامعة = the university

So بالجامعة means at the university or in university, depending on context.

In Levantine Arabic, بـ is very commonly used where English would say in or at. So بالجامعة sounds very natural.

You could also hear في الجامعة, but بالجامعة is especially common in everyday speech.

Because when Arabic expresses possession this way, it normally starts with the possessor phrase:

• عندي صديقة = I have a female friend

That is the most natural neutral order.

Starting with صديقة would usually change the focus or sound more marked, as if you were emphasizing a female friend rather than simply stating possession.

So for a basic sentence, عندي صديقة بالجامعة is the normal order.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation is roughly:

ʿindi ṣadīʔa bil-jāmʿa

A few useful notes:

• ع in عندي and جامعة is a throat sound that does not exist in English.
• The ق in صديقة is often pronounced as a glottal stop ء in many Levantine accents, so ṣadīʔa.
• الجامعة is often pronounced more like jāmʿa in everyday speech.

If you want a rough English-friendly approximation, you could think:

in-dee sa-dee-a bil-jaam-a

But that only approximates the real sounds.

No. The sentence stays the same whether the speaker is male or female:

عندي صديقة بالجامعة

That is because عندي does not change based on the speaker's gender.

The only thing that would change is the noun if the friend were male instead of female:

• عندي صديقة بالجامعة = I have a female friend at university
• عندي صديق بالجامعة = I have a male friend at university

It is very easy to understand, and much of it overlaps with Standard Arabic, but it sounds naturally spoken and colloquial, especially because of بالجامعة.

In more formal Standard Arabic, you might more often see something like:

• لديّ صديقة في الجامعة
• or عندي صديقة في الجامعة

So the sentence you have is very good for Levantine everyday speech.