manech مناش
Tunisian Derja · pronoun
“manech” (مناش) is a pronoun in Tunisian Derja meaning we are not.
Meanings
- we are not
- of what, out of what (mnech)
Usage
Manech is the negative form of the pronoun na7na. It is formed with ma…ch around the pronoun and means "we are not" or "we do not…". Before bech, it marks a negative future: "manech bech njiw" (we are not going to come). It is also used before an adjective or a noun: "manech fer7anin". It belongs to the same series as manich (I), manekch (you), mehouch (he), mehech (she) and manhomch (they). Written the same way, mnech means "of what" (men + ech), for example "mnech msanoua ?" (what is it made of?). Only context distinguishes the two.
Example
مناش باش نخرجو الليلة.
manech bech nokhorjou ellila.
“We are not going out tonight.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “manech” but also “manach” and “mnech”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Type “manech” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “reason to, anything to”; “from what? (interrogative)”: mnach in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “we are not”; “we are not (somewhere)”: mnach in Algerian.