elbare7 بارح
Tunisian Derja · adverb
“elbare7” (بارح) is an adverb in Tunisian Derja meaning yesterday.
Meanings
- yesterday
Usage
Bare7 means "yesterday". It is almost always used with the article: el-bare7, often shortened to lbare7. One says el-bare7 el-3chiya for "yesterday afternoon" or "yesterday evening", and el-bare7 fil lil for "last night". "The day before yesterday" is awwel el-bare7. The word is common in all registers of spoken language. The Latin-letter spelling varies a lot (elbara7, lbare7, el bera7). An English speaker should remember that the bare word, without the article, is rare in conversation.
Example
البارح ڨفصة و اليوم سيّدي بوزيد ,
elbera7 gafsa ou lyoume sidi bouzid ,
“Yesterday Gafsa, and today Sidi Bouzid.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “elbare7” but also “elbara7”, “bare7” and “bera7”. 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.