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: he looks / he is looking

So both parts support the meaning he.

If it were she, you would usually get something like:

صارلها شوي عم تفتش

عم + imperfect verb is the common Levantine way to show an action is in progress.

So:

• يفتش = he searches / he looks
• عم يفتش = he is searching / he is looking

In this sentence, عم يفتش shows that the searching is ongoing.

In many Levantine varieties, this is the clearest way to express the English be + -ing idea.

Because فتّش على means look for / search for.

This is an important difference:

• فتّش على التذكرة = he looked for the ticket
• فتّش الشنطة = he searched the bag

So:

• with على = search for something
• without على = search or inspect something directly

You may also hear يدوّر على in Levantine with a similar meaning: look for.

Yes, شوي basically means a little / a bit, but in this sentence it refers to time, so it means:

a little while
or
for a bit

So صارله شوي عم يفتش is not he became a little searching or anything like that. It means he has been searching for a little while.

You may also hear شوية in similar contexts.

Because صفحات الدفتر is an iḍāfa construction, meaning pages of the notebook.

In an iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take ال
• the second noun shows the definiteness

So:

• صفحات الدفتر = the notebook’s pages / the pages of the notebook

Even though صفحات has no ال, the whole phrase is still definite because الدفتر is definite.

Both are possible in English.

With a plural noun like صفحات (pages), بين can mean:

• between
• among

So بين صفحات الدفتر can be understood as:

• between the pages of the notebook
• among the pages of the notebook

In natural English, among the pages may sound a little smoother, but between the pages is also completely fine.

The pattern stays the same, but the suffix on صار and the verb form change.

For example:

• صارلي شوي عم فتش = I’ve been looking for a little while
• صارلها شوي عم تفتش = She’s been looking for a little while
• صارلنا شوي عم نفتش = We’ve been looking for a little while
• صارلن شوي عم يفتشوا = They’ve been looking for a little while

The exact forms can vary a bit across Levantine dialects, but the structure is the same.

Yes, but صارله شوي عم يفتش is a very normal and standard Levantine order.

The common pattern is:

صارله + time expression + عم + verb

So the sentence feels very natural as written.

In casual speech, you may sometimes hear the duration phrase placed differently for emphasis, but for learning purposes, the given order is a very good model to follow.

It is clearly colloquial Levantine.

Signs of that include:

• عم for the progressive
• the conversational duration pattern صارله شوي
• everyday wording like يفتش على

In Modern Standard Arabic, the sentence would be built differently. So this is the kind of sentence you would expect in spoken Levantine, not formal written news-style Arabic.