galt قالت
Moroccan Darija · verb
“galt” (قالت) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning she said.
Meanings
- she said
- she told
Usage
Galt is the third person feminine singular, in the perfect, of the verb gal (to say). The same form also serves for "I said" and "you said" (masculine). Only the context or the pronoun settles which: "ana galt" (I said), "hiya galt" (she said). When a vowel-initial suffix follows, you hear "galet", as in "galet liha" (she said to her). The person addressed is introduced with l-: "galt liya" (she said to me). Depending on the region, it is also pronounced 9alt or qalt.
Example
اشنو قالت دابا
achnou galet daba
“What did she say just now?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “galt” but also “9alt”, “galet”, “qalt” and “9alet”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “galt” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “she said”; “she told, she claimed”: 9alet in Algerian.