kharej خارج

Algerian Darja · preposition

“kharej” (خارج) is a preposition in Algerian Darja meaning outside of, beyond.

Meanings

1. outside of, beyond
2. abroad (with the article)
3. going out, leaving

Usage

Kharej is used mainly as a preposition: "kharej la wilaya", "kharej el wa9t" (past the deadline). With the article, l-kharij or l-kharej means abroad: "rah fel kharij" means "he is abroad". This sense is very common in conversations about emigration. The same word is also the participle of the verb khrej (to go out): "rani kharej" means "I am going out", and it agrees in gender and number (kharja, kharjin). Fixed phrases from Standard Arabic such as "kharej taghtiya" (out of network coverage) are borrowed as they are, often ironically. Context tells you whether it means "outside" or "I'm going out".

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “kharej” but also “kharij”, “5arej”, “kharedj” and “khareg”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.

Type “kharej” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “going out, on the way out”; “out (hanging out)”: kharj in Moroccan.

In Tunisian Derja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “going out, gone out”; “abroad (fel khārej)”: 5arej in Tunisian.