tgoul تقول
Moroccan Darija · verb
“tgoul” (تقول) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning you say (masc.); she says.
Meanings
- you say (masc.); she says
- as if, you'd think
Usage
Tgoul is the imperfective form of the verb gal (to say) in the second person masculine singular, and also the third person feminine singular: only context can decide. It is found mostly after bgha (to want), ghadi (future) or kan + ka-: bghiti tgoul, ghadi tgoul, katgoul. Used alone at the start of a sentence, tgoul takes the fixed meaning "you'd think": tgoul chi wa7ed mrid, "you'd think he was sick". The q is pronounced g in most regions, hence the spellings tgoul and t9oul. As in English, one says "say to someone": tgoul liya, "you say to me".
Example
أش بغيتي تقول
ash bghiti tgoul
“What do you want to say?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tgoul” but also “tgol”, “t9oul”, “t9ol” and “tqoul”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 9 is qaf (ق), a k pronounced at the back of the throat.
Type “tgoul” on the Arabic keyboard
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “you say / she says”; “as if, it looks like”: tgoul in Algerian.