صديقتي عندها فكرة مختلفة، لكن مشروعها صعب قليلا.

my

Breakdown of صديقتي عندها فكرة مختلفة، لكن مشروعها صعب قليلا.

• لكن: but
• صديقة: friend
• ها: her

Questions & Answers about صديقتي عندها فكرة مختلفة، لكن مشروعها صعب قليلا.

Why does صديقتي mean my female friend?

The base word is صديقة = female friend.

It is made of:

• صديق = friend (male)
• صديقة = friend (female)

Then Arabic adds the suffix ـي to show my:

• صديقة = a female friend
• صديقتي = my female friend

A few things are happening at once:

• the ـة in صديقة marks the noun as feminine
• the ـي at the end is the possessive suffix my

So صديقتي literally means my friend (female).

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Why does Arabic use عندها for she has?

Arabic often expresses possession with عند + a pronoun, rather than using a verb exactly like English have.

• عند basically means at or with
• ها means her

So:

• عندها = with her / she has

In this sentence:

• صديقتي عندها فكرة مختلفة
• literally: My friend, with her, an idea different
• natural English: My friend has a different idea

This is a very common Arabic pattern: