وصل صديقي مؤخرا.

Because verb + subject is a very common neutral word order in Modern Standard Arabic.

So وصل صديقي مؤخرا is a perfectly normal way to say this. Arabic can also use subject + verb, for example صديقي وصل مؤخرا, but the verb-first order is especially common in formal Arabic.

وصل is a past/perfect-tense verb, specifically third person masculine singular.

Its basic meaning can be arrived or reached, depending on context. In this sentence, with a person as the subject, it naturally means arrived.

So grammatically, وصل means something like he arrived.

In Arabic, possession is often shown with a suffix, not a separate word.

• صديق = friend
• ـي = my

So:

• صديقي = my friend

This suffix is attached directly to the noun. Arabic does this very often:

• كتابي = my book
• بيتي = my house
• صديقي = my friend

Arabic does not need a separate helping verb like English has in this kind of sentence.

The Arabic perfect/past form often covers both:

• simple past: arrived
• present perfect: has arrived

The exact English translation depends on context. So وصل صديقي مؤخرا can correspond to English My friend arrived recently or My friend has arrived recently, depending on the situation.

The subject صديقي is masculine singular, so the verb is also masculine singular: وصل.

If the subject were feminine singular, you would use:

• وصلت صديقتي مؤخرا = my female friend arrived recently

If the subject were plural and the verb came first, Arabic usually keeps the verb in the singular form, while matching gender. For example:

• وصل أصدقائي مؤخرا = my friends arrived recently

This verb-first agreement pattern is very common in MSA.

مؤخرا means recently / lately and functions as an adverb.

More technically, it is often analyzed as an accusative adverbial expression. In fully vocalized Arabic, it is written:

• مؤخرًا

In normal unvocalized writing, the final tanwīn sign is usually not written, so you often see:

• مؤخرا

Both represent the same word.

It is pronounced approximately muʾakhkharan in careful MSA pronunciation.

A few helpful points:

• The ؤ contains a hamza, so there is a small stop sound: mu-ʾ...
• خ is the throaty kh sound, like the ch in German Bach or Scottish loch
• The خ is doubled here: -akhkha-

So you can think of it roughly as:

• mu-akh-kha-ran

Yes, you can.

Both are possible:

• وصل صديقي مؤخرا
• صديقي وصل مؤخرا

The first is the more classic verb-first structure. The second is also natural and may put a little more attention on صديقي.

So both are grammatical; the difference is mainly one of style and emphasis, not basic meaning.