صديقتي بدها فندق قريب من البحر، مش بعيد عن المطاعم.

صديقتي means my female friend.

• صديقة = a female friend
• ـي = my

So:

• صديقتي = my female friend
• صديقي = my male friend

The ـة in صديقة becomes pronounced as -t- when a suffix is added, which is why you get صديقتي and not صديقةي.

بدها means she wants in Levantine Arabic.

It comes from بدّ / بده patterns used in spoken Levantine to express wanting.

A useful set is:

• بدي = I want
• بدك = you want
• بده = he wants
• بدها = she wants
• بدنا = we want
• بدهم = they want

So in this sentence:

• صديقتي بدها فندق = My friend wants a hotel

This is very common in spoken Levantine, even though it is not the same as Modern Standard Arabic wording.

Arabic usually does not use a present-tense verb equivalent to is/are in simple sentences.

So:

• فندق قريب literally looks like hotel near
• but it means a hotel that is near or a nearby hotel

This is normal in Arabic. The present-tense to be is usually understood rather than spoken.

فندق is indefinite and means a hotel.

Arabic shows indefiniteness partly by the absence of الـ (the). So:

• فندق = a hotel
• الفندق = the hotel

Since the sentence is talking about the kind of hotel she wants, not a specific already-known hotel, the indefinite form makes sense.

Because قريب describes فندق (hotel), not صديقتي (my friend).

The structure is:

• صديقتي بدها فندق قريب
  = My friend wants a hotel that is near

Since فندق is masculine singular, قريب is also masculine singular.

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would change:

• غرفة قريبة = a nearby room

So the adjective agrees with the noun it describes, not with the person wanting it.

Literally, it means near from the sea, but natural English is near the sea or close to the sea.

Breakdown:

• قريب = near / close
• من = from
• البحر = the sea

In Arabic, قريب commonly takes من after it.

Different adjectives and expressions take different prepositions in Arabic, just like in English.

Here:

• قريب من = near / close to
• بعيد عن = far from

So:

• قريب من البحر = near the sea
• بعيد عن المطاعم = far from the restaurants

You just have to learn these combinations as chunks.

مش is a very common Levantine negation word meaning not.

So:

• بعيد = far
• مش بعيد = not far

In this sentence:

• مش بعيد عن المطاعم = not far from the restaurants

This is a very natural colloquial way to negate adjectives and many other things in Levantine.

Both are possible, but they are not exactly the same in feeling.

• قريب من المطاعم = close to the restaurants
• مش بعيد عن المطاعم = not far from the restaurants

The second one is a bit softer and less strong. It suggests that being close to restaurants is desirable, but maybe exact closeness is not as important as being near the sea.

In English we do the same thing:

• close to restaurants
• not far from restaurants

These are similar, but not identical in nuance.

Because they are serving different functions.

• فندق is the thing being requested: a hotel
• المطاعم refers to the restaurants, often meaning restaurants in the area generally, or the known set of restaurants relevant in the context

In everyday Arabic, definite nouns are often used where English might also use a more general expression. So عن المطاعم here can be understood naturally as from restaurants / from the restaurants nearby/in the area.

You may also hear indefinite versions in other contexts, but المطاعم sounds completely natural here.

It can, depending on context, but by itself صديقتي most literally means my female friend.

In real life, Arabic speakers may use:

• صديقتي = my female friend
• sometimes also my girlfriend, depending on context, relationship, tone, and region

If the sentence is from a learning example, it is safest to understand it as my friend unless the broader context makes a romantic meaning clear.

A rough Levantine pronunciation would be something like:

ṣadīʔti biddha funduʔ ʔarīb min il-baḥer, mish baʕīd ʕan il-maṭاعم

A few helpful notes:

• صديقتي often sounds like ṣadīʔti
• بدها often sounds like biddha
• فندق may sound like funduʔ
• البحر in Levantine is often pronounced closer to il-baḥer
• مش is usually mish

Pronunciation varies by country and city, so this is only an approximate guide.

It is clearly colloquial Levantine Arabic.

The biggest clue is بدها for she wants, which is spoken Levantine. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would expect something like:

• تريد = she wants

Also, مش is a colloquial negation word, not the usual Modern Standard negation in this kind of sentence.

So this sentence is the kind of Arabic people actually say in everyday conversation in the Levant.

The sentence breaks down like this:

• صديقتي = my female friend
• بدها = wants
• فندق = a hotel
• قريب من البحر = near the sea
• مش بعيد عن المطاعم = not far from the restaurants

So the structure is:

[subject] + [wants] + [noun] + [description 1] + [description 2]

More literally:

My friend wants a hotel, near the sea, not far from the restaurants.

This kind of structure is very common in spoken Arabic: state the thing, then add descriptions after it.