7awel حاول
Moroccan Darija · verb
“7awel” (حاول) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to try, attempt.
Meanings
- to try, attempt
- to try to persuade someone
Usage
7awel (imperfective y7awel) is the usual verb for "to try". It takes a conjugated verb directly, with no equivalent of "to": 7awel tji, "try to come". With m3a, 7awel m3ah means "to press him" or "to try to convince him". In the imperative, 7awel mrra khra ("try again") is very common. In colloquial speech, jerreb is also used with a similar meaning, but more for "to test" something.
Example
حاول مرة أخرى
7awel mrra khra
“Try one more time.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kan7awl | 7awlt | |
| nta (you, m.) | kat7awl | 7awlti | 7awl |
| nti (you, f.) | kat7awli | 7awlti | 7awli |
| howa (he) | kay7awl | 7awl | |
| hiya (she) | kat7awl | 7awlat | |
| 7na (we) | kan7awlo | 7awlna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | kat7awlo | 7awlto | 7awlo |
| homa (they) | kay7awlo | 7awlo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7awel” but also “7awl”, “hawel”, “7aawel” and “7awal”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.
Type “7awel” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to try, to attempt”; “to make an effort to”: 7awel in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “try, attempt”; “try to persuade someone”: 7awel in Tunisian.