يحضر صديقي الحفل.

A careful fully vocalized reading is:

يَحْضُرُ صَدِيقِي الحَفْلَ
yaḥḍuru ṣadīqī al-ḥafla

A few pronunciation notes:

• ح is a strong breathy h sound, deeper than English h.
• ض is an emphatic d sound.
• صديقي ends with a long -ī, because it means my friend.
• الحفل begins with al- because ح is a moon letter, so the l is pronounced.

In less formal reading, final case vowels are often not pronounced, so you may also hear something like:

yaḥḍur ṣadīqī al-ḥafl

Because Arabic usually leaves out short vowels in normal writing, يحضر can be read in more than one way.

Here, based on the meaning, it is:

• يَحْضُرُ = yaḥḍuru = he attends / he is present at

A different vocalization would give a different meaning:

• يُحْضِرُ = yuḥḍiru = he brings

So the written form is the same, but the intended meaning tells you which pronunciation is correct.

Because Arabic very commonly uses verb–subject–object order.

So:

• يحضر صديقي الحفل = verb + subject + object

This is very normal in Modern Standard Arabic.

You can also say:

• صديقي يحضر الحفل

That puts the subject first and can sound a bit more like My friend is attending the party with extra focus on my friend.

Both are grammatical.

Because Arabic often shows possession by attaching a pronoun suffix directly to the noun.

• صديق = friend
• ـي = my

So:

• صديقي = my friend

This is a type of construction related to iḍāfa (the possessive/genitive construction), but with a pronoun attached instead of a second noun.

It is the subject of the verb.

In this sentence:

• يحضر = attends
• صديقي = my friend → the one doing the action
• الحفل = the party → what is being attended

So صديقي is nominative in function, even though the case ending is not clearly visible in the usual written form.

Because when a noun takes the suffix ـي meaning my, the usual case ending is not shown in the normal obvious way.

So although صديقي is the subject and is nominative in grammar, learners usually just recognize its role from:

• its position
• the sentence meaning
• the overall structure

This is very common and nothing unusual to worry about.

Because the verb حضر / يحضر can directly take the event being attended.

So Arabic says literally:

• he attends the party

with the party as a direct object.

That is why الحفل is in the accusative in full grammar:

• الحَفْلَ

In normal unvowelled writing, the final fatḥa is usually not written, so you just see الحفل.

Because with this meaning, حضر often takes a direct object in Standard Arabic.

So these are natural:

• حضر الحفل = he attended the party
• حضر الاجتماع = he attended the meeting
• حضر الدرس = he attended the lesson

English learners sometimes expect a preposition like to, but Arabic does not need one here.

Because ح is a moon letter.

In Arabic, the definite article الـ behaves in two ways:

• with sun letters, the l sound assimilates
• with moon letters, the l sound stays

Since ح is a moon letter, you pronounce:

• الحفل = al-ḥafl

not with assimilation.

Formally, it is the imperfect verb form, which can express:

• present: he attends / is attending
• habitual: he attends
• sometimes future, depending on context

By itself, this sentence usually suggests a present or general meaning.

If you want to make the future clearer, you can say:

• سيحضر صديقي الحفل = My friend will attend the party
• سوف يحضر صديقي الحفل = My friend will attend the party

Its root is:

• ح ض ر

This root has meanings connected to presence, attendance, or being there.

From the same root, you may meet words like:

• حَضَرَ = he attended / was present
• حُضور = attendance / presence
• حاضِر = present
• مَحضَر or related forms in other contexts

Recognizing roots helps a lot in Arabic, because many related words come from the same three consonants.

Yes. For example:

• يحضر صديقي الحفل
• صديقي يحضر الحفل

Both can mean the same thing.

The difference is mostly one of style or emphasis:

• verb first is very common in formal Arabic
• subject first can sound a bit more topic-focused

So as a learner, it is useful to understand both patterns.