jme3 جمع
Moroccan Darija · verb
“jme3” (جمع) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning gather, collect.
Meanings
- gather, collect
- tidy up, put away
- accumulate, save up
Usage
Jme3 means to bring things or people together: "jme3 7wayjek" (gather your things), "jme3 l3a2ila" (bring the family together). It often means "to tidy up": "jme3 darek" (tidy your house), "jme3 chi3rek" (tie up your hair). The expression "jme3 rasek" means "pull yourself together" or "behave properly". The form jemme3 stresses the effort of gathering up or putting everything away. Watch out for the homograph jame3, which means "mosque": the same Arabic spelling covers a different noun.
Example
جمع حوايجك، غادي نمشيو
jme3 7wayjek, ghadi nmchiw
“Gather your things, we're leaving.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanjm3 | jm3t | |
| nta (you, m.) | katjm3 | jm3ti | jm3 |
| nti (you, f.) | katjm3i | jm3ti | jm3i |
| howa (he) | kayjm3 | jm3 | |
| hiya (she) | katjm3 | jm3at | |
| 7na (we) | kanjm3o | jm3na | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katjm3o | jm3to | jm3o |
| homa (they) | kayjm3o | jm3o |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jme3” but also “jm3”, “jem3”, “jma3”, “jmme3” and “jam3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “jme3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to gather, to collect, to pick up”; “to pack away, to tidy up”: jamma3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “gather, pick up”; “pack, put away”: jma3 in Tunisian.