tred طرد
Moroccan Darija · verb
“tred” (طرد) is a verb in Moroccan Darija meaning to kick out, throw out.
Meanings
- to kick out, throw out
- to fire, dismiss
- to expel from school
Usage
Tred means to chase someone out of a place or a group. It is very common for dismissals: tred men l-khedma (to fire), tred men l-medrasa (to expel from school). It readily takes a suffixed pronoun: tredni (he kicked me out), tredouh (they fired him). The passive is ttred (to be dismissed): ttred men l-khedma. The present tense is ytred. The register is neutral, and the verb is used for a person as well as for an animal being driven away. It does not mean "to shoot" or "to set on fire": the English gloss "fire" here must be understood as "to dismiss from a job".
Example
المدير طردني من الخدمة
l-mudir tredni men l-khedma
“The manager fired me from my job.”
Conjugation
Forms as recorded in DODa and reproduced in its spelling, which often leaves out short vowels.
| Imperfective (present) | Perfective (past) | Imperative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ana (I) | kanTred | Tredt | |
| nta (you, m.) | katTred | Tredti | Tred |
| nti (you, f.) | katTrdi | Tredti | Trdi |
| howa (he) | kayTred | Tred | |
| hiya (she) | katTred | Trdat | |
| 7na (we) | kanTrdo | Trdna | |
| ntouma (you, pl.) | katTrdo | Trdto | Trdo |
| homa (they) | kayTrdo | Trdo |
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tred” but also “ttred”, “trd”, “tered” and “tarad”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “tred” on the Arabic keyboard
In Tunisian Derja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Tunisian Derja, where it means “to dismiss, fire”; “to chase away, throw out”: tred in Tunisian.