7dech حداش
Tunisian Derja · numeral
“7dech” (حداش) is a numeral in Tunisian Derja meaning eleven.
Meanings
- eleven
Usage
7dech is the Tunisian form of the number eleven. It is used for the time, the date, age, floors or room numbers: nhar 7dech, el sé3a 7dech. Before a counted noun, it often takes the bound form 7dechen: 7dechen dinar, "eleven dinars". The contracted pronunciation is very far from Standard Arabic. This contraction is typical of the numbers from eleven to nineteen in Tunisian, for example tnach (twelve) and tlattach (thirteen).
Example
نتلاقاو الساعة حداش.
netla9aw e-se3a 7dech.
“We'll meet at eleven o'clock.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “7dech” but also “hdech”, “7dach”, “7adech” and “hdach”. 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 “7dech” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
The same word also exists in Moroccan Darija, written حضاش, where it means “eleven”; “eleven o'clock”: 7dach in Moroccan.