stakhrej ستخرج
Moroccan Darija · verb
“stakhrej” (ستخرج) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to extract, take out.
Meanings
- to extract, take out
- to work out, derive (an answer)
- to obtain (an official document)
Usage
Stekhrej means to extract something from a material, from the ground or from a text: stekhrej lpetrol, stekhrej lfikra. At school, it is the verb of instructions: you are asked to stekhrej the answer, the main idea or what an exercise requires. The word belongs to a semi-formal, school or administrative register. In casual speech, people rather say khrrej (to take out). It is also used for obtaining official papers (stekhrej chi wti9a), but phrases with jbed or khrrej are more common there.
Example
كانتسنّا فيك ت ستخرج دكشي لي طلبو منا التمرين
kantsenna fik t ste5rej dkchi li talbou mena tamrin
“I'm waiting for you to work out what the exercise asked of us.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanstkhrej | stkhrejt | |
| nta (you, m.) | katstkhrej | stkhrejti | stkhrej |
| nti (you, f.) | katstkhrji | stkhrejti | stkhrji |
| howa (he) | kaystkhrej | stkhrej | |
| hiya (she) | katstkhrej | stkhrjat | |
| 7na (we) | kanstkhrjo | stkhrjna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katstkhrjo | stkhrjto | stkhrjo |
| homa (they) | kaystkhrjo | stkhrjo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “stakhrej” but also “stekhrej”, “stkhrej”, “sta5rej” and “stakhraj”. 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.