rje3 رجع
Moroccan Darija · verb
“rje3” (رجع) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to come back, return home.
Meanings
- to come back, return home
- to become
- to give back, bring back (form rejje3)
Usage
Rje3 is the basic verb for coming back or going home: rje3 l-dar, "to go back home". It is also used in the sense of becoming: rje3 kbir, "he has grown big". The doubled form rejje3 is transitive: to give back, bring back or put back something. You say rejje3 lia flousi, "give me back my money". Be sure to distinguish rje3, "to come back", from rejje3, "to make come back, to give back". In the imperative, rje3 means "come back". Depending on context, it can also mean "step back".
Example
صافي رجع دار
safi rja3 dar
“That's it, he went back home.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanrj3 | rj3t | |
| nta (you, m.) | katrj3 | rj3ti | rj3 |
| nti (you, f.) | katrj3i | rj3ti | rj3i |
| howa (he) | kayrj3 | rj3 | |
| hiya (she) | katrj3 | rj3at | |
| 7na (we) | kanrj3o | rj3na | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katrj3o | rj3to | rj3o |
| homa (they) | kayrj3o | rj3o |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “rje3” but also “rja3”, “rj3”, “rejje3” and “rjje3”. 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 “rje3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to return, come back”; “to become”: rja3 in Algerian.
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to return, come home”; “to become again, start again”: rja3 in Tunisian.