يرى المعجب صديقي.

• يرى = sees / is seeing
• المعجب = the admirer / the fan
• صديقي = my friend

So the intended meaning is something like The admirer sees my friend.

Because Arabic very often uses verb-first word order in verbal sentences.

So:

• يرى المعجب صديقي = literally sees the admirer my friend
• Natural English = The admirer sees my friend

This VSO pattern (verb–subject–object) is very common in Arabic. English usually prefers SVO (subject–verb–object), so this is one of the first word-order differences learners notice.

يرى is the imperfect (non-past) form of the verb رأى (to see).

Here it is:

• 3rd person
• masculine
• singular

So by itself it means he sees, he is seeing, or sometimes he will see, depending on context.

In this sentence, it matches a singular masculine subject: المعجب.

Here it is being used as a noun meaning the admirer / the fan / the person who likes or admires someone.

Forms like this often come from participles in Arabic, so they can sometimes act like adjectives in other sentences. But in this sentence, it is simply the person doing the action.

So here, think of المعجب as:

• the admirer
• not as a descriptive adjective attached to another noun

صديقي means my friend.

It is made from:

• صديق = friend
• -ي = my

So Arabic does not need a separate word for my here. It attaches the possessive pronoun directly to the noun.

Compare:

• صديق = a friend / friend
• صديقي = my friend

Because a possessed noun in Arabic is already definite.

My friend is already a specific person, so Arabic does not say الصديقي.

That is a general rule:

• الكتاب = the book
• كتابي = my book
  not الكتابي

So صديقي is already definite because of the -ي suffix.

This is a very good question, because in unvocalized Arabic this sentence can look a bit ambiguous.

If the intended meaning is The admirer sees my friend, then المعجب is the subject.

Why can this be tricky?

• Arabic often leaves out short vowel marks in normal writing.
• Those short vowels are what show case endings clearly.
• المعجب could be read with different case endings in fully vocalized text.
• صديقي does not visibly change shape here.

In practice, learners usually take the first noun after the verb as the subject in a simple sentence like this, so the most natural reading is:

• يرى المعجب صديقي = The admirer sees my friend

But context or full vowel marks are what remove doubt completely.

Because nouns with the 1st person singular possessive suffix (-ي, my) do not show the case ending in an obvious written way here.

So صديقي can serve as:

• subject
• object
• object of a preposition

while looking the same in normal writing.

This is why a sentence like this can feel less transparent than an English sentence. Arabic often relies on:

• context
• vowel marks, if present
• normal sentence patterns

to make the meaning clear.

Yes. That would also be grammatical.

• يرى المعجب صديقي = verb-first style
• المعجب يرى صديقي = subject-first style

Both can mean The admirer sees my friend.

Very roughly:

• verb-first is a very normal default verbal-sentence pattern in Arabic
• subject-first can sound a bit more like you are highlighting or introducing the subject

At an early stage, it is enough to know that Arabic allows both patterns.