7added حدد

Tunisian Derja · verb

“7added” (حدد) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to specify, determine.

Meanings

1. to specify, determine
2. to set (a price, a date)
3. to pinpoint, locate

Usage

7added means "to specify" or "to fix clearly". This verb is common in speech, even though it has a slightly formal feel. It appears in phrases such as "7added mawqfek" (pick your side, state your position clearly), "7added essoum" (set the price) or "7added el wa9t" (set the time). In the imperative, it often expresses impatience: you are telling the other person to stop hesitating. The imperfect is "y7added" and the related noun is "ta7did". The sense of "to locate" belongs more to a technical register.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7added” but also “hadded”, “7adad” and “7dded”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 7 is ha (ح), a breathy h from the throat.

Type “7added” on the Arabic keyboard

In Moroccan Darija

Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to set, determine”; “to specify, make clear”: 7dded in Moroccan.