3echrin عشرين
Tunisian Derja · numeral
“3echrin” (عشرين) is a numeral in Tunisian Derja meaning twenty.
Meanings
- twenty
Usage
3echrin is the number twenty. Followed by a counted noun, it takes the singular: "3echrin dinar", "3echrin 3am". In compound numbers, the unit comes first, joined by w: "arb3a w 3echrin" (twenty-four), "wa7ed w 3echrin" (twenty-one). For prices, you often hear 3echrin alone, with the currency unit understood. In practice, "3echrin alf" (twenty thousand) is sometimes heard when speaking in millimes rather than dinars.
Example
عندو عشرين سنة
3andou 3echrin sna
“He is twenty years old.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “3echrin” but also “3ochrin”, “achrin”, “3eshrin” and “3achrin”. 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 “3echrin” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “twenty”: 3chrin in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “twenty”: 3echrine in Algerian.