motawasset متوسط
Algerian Darja · adjective
“motawasset” (متوسط) is an adjective in Algerian Darja meaning average, neither good nor bad.
Meanings
- average, neither good nor bad
- middle school
- intermediate level
Usage
Motawasset describes what is average: a size, a level, an income. In Algeria, the word is most often used in a school context: lmotawasset refers to the middle-school cycle, the equivalent of collège, and rab3a motawasset means the fourth year of middle school, which ends with the BEM. Note: it is not the "average" of grades, which is usually called lmoyenne. For a casual judgment about something, normal or ma3lich is also used.
Example
خويا راه يقرا في الرابعة متوسط.
khouya rah ye9ra fe rab3a motawasset.
“My brother is in the fourth year of middle school.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “motawasset” but also “moutawasset”, “mtwasset”, “motawasit” and “mutawassit”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “motawasset” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “average”; “intermediate”: mtwesset in Moroccan.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “medium, of middle size or value”; “intermediate (level)”: metwasset in Tunisian.