Today’s topic started with me trying to find the definition of to have. The word I ended up finding to meet my needs was 3nd. This word worked perfectly as a straight translation for the verb to have, helping me to describe things that I possess. There is another word in darija that can be …
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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 …
Frustrations in my journey
When I started this journey, I knew that this would take a lot of work. I knew that I had to put the hours in to be able to learn darija. I told myself last year that I will be studying everyday and should be at least at an immediate level within a year. This …
Wella – what does it really mean?
Here we go again with another darija word. Today we will look at the word “wella”. To be honest, I don’t recall hearing this word in conversation but this could be that my listening needs to improve (which I am trying to do). The reason why I am writing about this word is because I …
Rfisa – what the heck am I eating?
Before I was married, I would spend a lot of time speaking to my soon to be wife about her and her culture. Although I knew many things about Morocco I was always interested in learning more. A lot of times we would speak about food. Having travelled many times to Morocco I thought I …
Update 2018
Well it’s been awhile since I last posted here. I set this goal last year to have a 5 min conversation and I would like to give you an update on this and other things. First I would like to explain why I have been away for so long. The first thing was that …
Darija word ras – what does it really mean
Of all the words I have seen in darija, the darija word ras is one that I have seen used in more expressions than any other word. The word means head so coming from an English-speaking background, it makes sense that the word would have so many expressions. I’m sure we all of heard some …
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G vs Gh
In arabic there is not an equivalent for the letter G. The closest letter that resembles G is more of a sound that comes from your throat, which is symbolized (Gh). I didn’t think there was a G vs Gh discussion that would need to be made. For the longest time, In my journey, I …
Translations of 7ta what does it really mean
When I started learning Darija one of the first phrases I learned was me too. When I think back this seems to be a strange a thing to learn at first. I think that the reason I learned this first was because I wanted to know how to agree with someone. Just to let you …
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Ghadi the word of the future
In Darija when speaking in the future tense, the sentence is formed differently. You see in English, you would use a verb like “will’ or “going” to indicate a future tense. In Darija the contruction works a bit differently. When wanting to speak about future events in Darija, there is a special word that is …