mchat مشات

Moroccan Darija · verb

“mchat” (مشات) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning she went, she left.

Meanings

1. she went, she left
2. she is gone (for good)

Usage

Mchat is the perfect form, third person feminine singular, of the verb mcha "to go, to leave". The masculine is mcha, the first person is mchit. Followed by another verb in the imperfect, it expresses purpose: mchat tdir, mchat tjib ("she went to do, to bring"). With rah in front (rah mchat), it stresses that she has already left and is absent. Depending on context, it can also mean that something has disappeared, been lost or is finished. For an English speaker, mcha covers both "go" and "leave", with no lexical distinction.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “mchat” but also “mshat” and “mchaat”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “mchat” on the Arabic keyboard

In Algerian Darja

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “she went, she left”; “it worked out, it succeeded”: mchat in Algerian.