Questions & Answers about تحاول صديقتي أن تكتب الجواب الآن، لكنها تحتاج إلى وقت.
In the present tense, Arabic verbs often begin with a prefix that shows the subject.
تحاول is the imperfect form of حاول meaning to try. Here it means she tries / she is trying because the subject is صديقتي = my female friend.
The prefix تـ can mark several forms in Arabic, but in this sentence the subject makes it clear that it is third-person feminine singular: she.
صديقة means a female friend.
When you add ـي to the end, it becomes صديقتي = my female friend.
So:
- صديقة = a female friend
- صديقتي = my female friend
The ـي is a possessive suffix meaning my.
Also, the ة in صديقة changes in pronunciation when another ending is attached, so ṣadīqa becomes ṣadīqatī.
Not necessarily. In Modern Standard Arabic, صديقتي literally means my female friend.
Depending on context, it could sometimes refer to a romantic partner, but by itself it does mean in the English romantic sense. Very often it simply means if the friend is female.