7adhi حظي
Tunisian Derja · noun
“7adhi” (حظي) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning my luck, my fate.
Meanings
- my luck, my fate
- poor me (exclamation)
Usage
Ḥaḍḍi is the possessive form of ḥaḍḍ, "luck, fate", with the suffix -i, "my". It is used mainly to complain about bad luck, often in a resigned or ironic tone: "ya ḥaḍḍi", "ḥaḍḍi mnayek", "ḥaḍḍi ma yjich". It can also express genuine satisfaction: "ḥaḍḍi zin", I'm lucky. The other persons are formed the same way: ḥaḍḍek (your luck), ḥaḍḍou (his luck). In online writing, the emphatic sound is spelled in several ways (dh, 4, ẓ). Informal register, very common in speech and on social media.
Example
حظّي ديما مايل، كل مرّة نخسر
7a4i dima mayel, kol marra nekhser
“My luck is always off, I lose every time.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7adhi” but also “hadhi” and “7azi”. 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.