ghalta غالطة
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“ghalta” (غالطة) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning wrong, incorrect (fem.).
Meanings
- wrong, incorrect (fem.)
- mistaken (woman)
Usage
Ghalta is the feminine of ghalet, "wrong, incorrect". The adjective agrees with a feminine noun: ma3louma ghalta ("wrong information"), 7aja ghalta ("a wrong thing"), jaweb ghalet ("a wrong answer"). Applied to a person, it means "mistaken": enti ghalta, "you are wrong" (to a woman). The pitfall is the noun ghalta (غلطة), "a mistake, an error". It is pronounced almost the same but is written differently in Arabic. In arabizi, the two words are often confused.
Example
الادريسة اللي عطاهالي غالطة
el adresse elli 3tahali ghalta
“The address he gave me is wrong.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “ghalta” but also “ghal6a”, “8alta” and “ghalt”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 6 is emphatic ta (ط); 8 is light ha (ه) or ghayn (غ), depending on the writer.