hada هادا
Moroccan Darija · pronoun
“hada” (هادا) is a pronoun in Moroccan Darija meaning this one, this, it is.
Meanings
- this one, this, it is
Usage
Hada is the masculine proximal demonstrative pronoun. It is used alone, with no noun after it: hada khoya, "this one, this is my brother". It is often used to introduce or comment, in the sense of "it is", as in khir zher hada, "it's a stroke of luck". The feminine is hadi and the plural is hadou. Hadchi means "that, it". Before a noun, use had instead. Hada is often placed at the end of a sentence for emphasis.
Example
هتا هادا هل
hta hada hl
“This is a solution too.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “hada” but also “8ada”, “hadaa”, “hadi” and “had”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.
Type “hada” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
The same word also exists in Algerian Darja, written هدا, where it means “this, this one (masculine)”; “this (before a noun)”: hada in Algerian.