khrej خرج
Algerian Darja · verb
“khrej” (خرج) is a verb in Algerian Darja meaning to go out, step outside.
Meanings
- to go out, step outside
- to leave, quit a place
- to turn out
Usage
Khrej means to go out. Its conjugation gives "khrejt" (I went out) and "yekhrej" or "yekhroj" (he goes out), and it is used with "men": "khrej men dar" (he went out of the house). It also expresses the idea of leaving a place, a country or a situation. With an adjective, it means "to turn out, to give a result": "lvideo khrej mlih" (the video turned out well). Do not confuse it with the form "kherrej", which means "to make go out, to take something out". The word is neutral and used everywhere.
Example
خرج من الدار بكري
khrej men dar bekri
“He left the house early.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khrej” but also “khraj”, “5rej” and “kharj”. 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 “khrej” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “go out, exit”; “turn out”: khrej in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to go out, leave a place”; “to turn out to be”: 5raj in Tunisian.