jdid جديد
Tunisian Derja · adjective
“jdid” (جديد) is an adjective in Tunisian Derja meaning new, brand new.
Meanings
- new, brand new
- recent, novel
- something new, news
Usage
Jdid is the usual adjective for "new" or "brand new", applied to objects, people or situations: karhba jdida (a new car), khedma jdida (a new job). It agrees in the feminine as jdida and has the plural jdod. Used as a noun, it means "something new": chnouwa el jdid? (what's new?). The expression mel jdid means "again, anew". Jdid covers both "brand new" and "new", and context decides. The adjective comes after the noun.
Example
شريت تليفون جديد البارح
chrit telifoun jdid lbere7
“I bought a new phone yesterday.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “jdid” but also “jdida”, “jdyd”, “jedid” and “jdiid”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “jdid” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “new, brand new”; “something new, news”: jdid in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “new, brand new”; “recent, novel”: jdid in Algerian.