jari جاري

Tunisian Derja · noun

“jari” (جاري) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning my neighbour.

Meanings

1. my neighbour
2. running, ongoing

Usage

Most often, jari means "my neighbour": it is jar (neighbour) followed by the possessive suffix -i. The feminine is jarti (my female neighbour). The same word, pronounced jeri, is also the participle of jra (to run): it then means "running" or "ongoing". It is heard in mazal jari (it's still ongoing) or in ma jeri (running water). For a learner, it is the sentence structure that distinguishes the two meanings.

Example

How to write it in Latin letters

In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jari” but also “jeri”, “jary”, “gari” and “jarri”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.

Type “jari” on the Arabic keyboard