khda خدا
Moroccan Darija · verb
“khda” (خدا) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to take, grab something.
Meanings
- to take, grab something
- to have (shower, drink, medicine)
- to marry (a woman)
Usage
Khda is the basic form of the verb "to take," in the past tense: "he took." One says khdit (I took), khditi (you took) and khdat (she took). In the present, one says kayakhud (he takes) and the imperative is khud. The verb is also used in many expressions: khda douch (to take a shower), khda lwe9t (to take time), khda mra (to marry a woman). With li- followed by a pronoun, it means "to take from someone": khda liya (he took from me). Note: in writing, it can be confused with ghedda (tomorrow), which is sometimes wrongly transcribed in Arabic.
Example
خدا ليا فلوسي
khda liyya flousi
“He took my money from me.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | khdit | |
| nta (you, m.) | khditi | khoud |
| nti (you, f.) | khditi | khoudi |
| howa (he) | khda | |
| hiya (she) | khdat | |
| 7na (we) | khdina | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | khdito | khoudo |
| homa (they) | khdao |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “khda” but also “5da”, “kheda”, “5eda” and “khdaa”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 5 is kha (خ), like the ch in Scottish loch.
Type “khda” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “he took”; “he got, received”: 5dha in Tunisian.