hadok هدوك
Algerian Darja · pronoun
“hadok” (هدوك) is a pronoun in Algerian Darja meaning those ones.
Meanings
- those ones
- those (+ noun)
Usage
The word hadouk is the plural demonstrative for distance, for both masculine and feminine. It can be used alone, as a pronoun (hadouk ma ja-wch, those ones did not come), or before a definite noun, as a determiner: hadouk ennas (those people). The corresponding singulars are hadak (masculine) and hadik (feminine). The demonstrative for proximity is hadou (these ones). For an English speaker, the pitfall is that the noun that follows must carry the article el-. The word is common in all regions, sometimes with the variant hadoukom.
Example
هدوك الدراري يلعبو برا
hadouk drari yal3bou berra
“Those kids are playing outside.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “hadok” but also “hadouk”, “hdouk” and “hadook”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “hadok” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “those (ones)”; “those … (before a noun)”: hadok in Moroccan.