setta w3echrin ستة وعشرين
Moroccan Darija · numeral
“setta w3echrin” (ستة وعشرين) is a numeral in Moroccan Darija meaning twenty-six.
Meanings
- twenty-six
Usage
Setta w3echrin is the number twenty-six. As with the other numbers between twenty and one hundred, the unit comes first, followed by "w" (and) and then the tens, as in Classical Arabic and unlike English. After this number, the noun stays singular: setta w3echrin 3am, setta w3echrin derhem. It is used for age, prices, dates and numbers. In prices, you need to know whether people are counting in dirhams or ryals, which changes the sum a lot. In online writing, the figure 26 is often used instead.
Example
عندو ستة وعشرين عام
3ndo setta w3echrin 3am
“He is twenty-six years old.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “setta w3echrin” but also “stta w3echrin”, “sta w3chrin” and “sitta w3echrin”. 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.