In English personal pronouns are separate words. Me, you, him, her, us, them are all words that exist on their own. To provide more clarity let’s look at the following sentence Me and you. Both personal pronouns exist and are visible to see. In Darija, there are personal pronouns but they usually attach to words, …
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Conjugating with Rasu
I wanted to write a very short post with conjugation of a word. I hope that this serves as a reference to those wishing to conjugate words. Conjugation is similar to Arabic where the pronoun is attached to the end of the noun. With enough practice, this becomes very easy to understand and implement. The …
Think and its many forms
Hi everyone, i’m back with another article. Hopefully I can get back to writing these more often. During my time in Morocco, while trying to speak to people I had this habit of thinking of a sentence in English and trying to translate it word for word into darija and then trying to adjust it …
Common phrases 4 – civilities
Sidi Bouzid Beach – Al Jadida Morocco Here we go again with another bunch of phrases. Today we will be looking at civilities. When I started typing civilities I started thinking, did I just invent a word? I wanted to say some along the lines of being civil. So I looked it up online and …
Conjugation basics (past and present tense)
I wanted to go over some of my thoughts of the conjugation of verbs in Darija. If you have some knowledge of the Arabic grammar, then you will find some similarities between conjugation basics of Arabic and Darija. For the past tense, you will be conjugating by changing the end of the verb. For instance …
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