Questions & Answers about صارله شوي عم يفتش على التذكرة بين صفحات الدفتر.
Here it means for a little while now or he has been ... for a bit.
So in this sentence, صارله شوي عم يفتش means something like he has been looking for a little while.
A learner often expects صار to mean only became, but in this kind of expression it is part of a very common Levantine pattern for duration.
In Levantine, صار does often mean became or happened, but it also appears in a structure like:
صارله + time expression + عم + imperfect verb
This pattern means:
he has been doing something for [that amount of time]
So:
- صارله شوي عم يفتش = he has been searching for a little while
- صارلي ساعة عم بستنى = I’ve been waiting for an hour
- صارلها يومين عم تدرس = she’s been studying for two days
So this is not the basic became meaning.
You can tell from two places:
- -له in صارله points to him
- يفتش is the 3rd person masculine singular form: