ينفق صديقي المال، لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك.

ينفق is the imperfect verb form, 3rd person masculine singular, from أنفق = to spend.

In Modern Standard Arabic, the imperfect can cover:

• a habitual action: he spends
• an action happening now: he is spending
• sometimes even a near future sense, depending on context

So without more context, ينفق can naturally be translated as either spends or is spending.

Because verb-first word order is very common in MSA.

So:

• ينفق صديقي المال = a normal verbal sentence
• صديقي ينفق المال = also correct

Both mean essentially the same thing, but the emphasis shifts a little:

• ينفق صديقي... sounds more neutral and narrative
• صديقي ينفق... puts a bit more focus on my friend

The base noun is صديق = friend.

When Arabic adds ـي to a noun, that suffix means my:

• صديق = friend
• صديقي = my friend

So Arabic often expresses possession with a suffix, not with a separate word like my.

Not necessarily. In Arabic, abstract or general nouns often appear with الـ more naturally than in English.

So المال can mean:

• the money in a specific context
• or simply money in a general sense

Here it most likely means money in a broad sense, not one particular pile of money. Arabic is often more comfortable than English with using the definite article for general concepts.

لا سيما is a set expression meaning:

• especially
• particularly
• notably

In this sentence, it highlights one important example of the money being spent:

• ينفق صديقي المال، لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك
• My friend spends money, especially subscription fees

You can treat لا سيما as a fixed phrase. Its deeper traditional grammar is more complicated, but for most learners, especially / particularly is the key idea.

It is commonly pronounced lā siyyamā.

Because لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك is not a regular verb + preposition structure. It is an inserted expression meaning especially subscription fees.

So the sentence is structured more like:

• My friend spends money — especially subscription fees

If you wanted a more straightforward sentence with on, you could say:

• ينفق صديقي المال على رسوم الاشتراك
• My friend spends money on subscription fees

So the version with لا سيما is a bit more stylistic and emphatic.

It is an iḍāfa construction, often called a genitive or possessive construction.

Breakdown:

• رسوم = fees
• الاشتراك = the subscription / membership / enrollment

Together:

• رسوم الاشتراك = subscription fees

A few important points about iḍāfa:

• the first noun usually does not take الـ
• the second noun determines the definiteness of the whole phrase
• the second noun is in the genitive relationship

So رسوم الاشتراك is the natural Arabic way to say subscription fees.

Yes, رسم can mean drawing, but it can also mean fee in formal or administrative language.

So رسوم can mean:

• drawings in one context
• fees / charges in another

Here, because the sentence is about spending money, رسوم الاشتراك clearly means subscription fees, not subscription drawings.

This is a very common kind of context-based meaning in Arabic.

A common fully vowelled beginning would be:

• يُنْفِقُ صَدِيقِي الْمَالَ...

Here is what is happening:

• يُنْفِقُ: indicative imperfect, so it ends in ـُ
• صديقي: the subject, so it is nominative in function, even though the ending is not visibly shown in the usual way because of the ـي suffix
• المالَ: direct object, so accusative

After لا سيما, the grammar can be analyzed in more than one way in traditional grammar, and ordinary Arabic writing usually does not show the ending anyway. So for beginners, it is best to learn the phrase as a chunk: لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك = especially subscription fees.

Yes, absolutely.

Both are correct:

• ينفق صديقي المال، لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك
• صديقي ينفق المال، لا سيما رسوم الاشتراك

The difference is mainly emphasis:

• ينفق صديقي... = more neutral, often more formal or written
• صديقي ينفق... = slightly more topic-focused, as if my friend is what you want to foreground

It can mean several related things, depending on context, such as:

• subscription
• membership
• enrollment
• participation / joining

So رسوم الاشتراك could be translated differently depending on the situation:

• subscription fees
• membership fees
• registration fees

In this sentence, subscription fees is a very natural translation.