زميلي بالجامعة عم يدرس للامتحان هلا.

A natural Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

zmīli bil-jāmʿa ʿam yedros lal-imtiḥān halla

A few notes:

• زميلي → zmīli
• بالجامعة → bil-jāmʿa
• عم → ʿam
• يدرس → yedros or yidros, depending on the speaker
• للامتحان → lal-imtiḥān
• هلا → halla

Pronunciation varies by country and even by city, so small differences are normal.

زميلي means my colleague, my classmate, or my fellow student, depending on context.

It breaks down like this:

• زميل = colleague / classmate / peer
• ـي = my

So زميلي literally means my colleague / my classmate.

In this sentence, because of بالجامعة (at university / in college), it most naturally means my classmate at university or my university colleague.

Because it is made of three parts that attach to each other:

• بـ = in / at
• ال = the
• جامعة = university

So:

• ب + ال + جامعة → بالجامعة

This is very normal in Arabic spelling. Prepositions like بـ attach directly to the following word.

In Levantine, بـ often covers meanings like in, at, or sometimes inside, depending on context. So بالجامعة here means at the university or in college.

عم marks an action that is happening right now or is in progress.

So:

• يدرس = he studies / he is studying
• عم يدرس = he is studying right now / he’s in the middle of studying

It is one of the most common ways in Levantine to express the English be + -ing idea.

So عم يدرس is the part that gives you is studying.

Good question. In Levantine, both patterns can be heard, depending on region and speaker:

• عم يدرس
• عم بيدرس

Both can mean he is studying.

The version in your sentence, عم يدرس, is very common and completely natural. In some areas, speakers prefer عم بيدرس. This is a dialect variation, not a big meaning difference.

As a rough guide:

• بيدرس often gives a simple present or habitual meaning: he studies
• عم يدرس clearly emphasizes an ongoing action: he is studying

Because Arabic uses لـ here to mean for.

So:

• الامتحان = the exam
• للامتحان = for the exam

In this sentence, يدرس للامتحان means study for the exam or prepare for the exam.

This is a very common pattern in Levantine and in other kinds of Arabic too.

هلا means now or right now.

Putting it at the end is very natural in spoken Levantine. It adds the sense of immediacy:

• عم يدرس هلا = he is studying now
• عم يدرس للامتحان هلا = he is studying for the exam now

Word order in Arabic is flexible, so هلا can move:

• هلا زميلي بالجامعة عم يدرس للامتحان
• زميلي بالجامعة هلا عم يدرس للامتحان
• زميلي بالجامعة عم يدرس للامتحان هلا

All of these can work, though some may sound more natural than others depending on emphasis.

No. Arabic does not usually use a separate present-tense word for is in sentences like this.

Instead, the meaning comes from the verb structure itself:

• عم
  • imperfect verb = ongoing action

So عم يدرس already means is studying. You do not need a separate word for is.

Yes. زميلي is a context-based word.

Depending on the situation, it could mean:

• my classmate
• my fellow student
• my colleague
• my peer

Because the sentence says بالجامعة, many learners will understand it as my classmate at university or my university colleague. The exact English choice depends on context.

You would say:

زميلتي بالجامعة عم تدرس للامتحان هلا.

Changes:

• زميلي → زميلتي = my female classmate / my female colleague
• يدرس → تدرس = she studies / she is studying

So the gender changes both the noun and the verb.