rja3 رجع
Tunisian Derja · verb
“rja3” (رجع) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to return, come home.
Meanings
- to return, come home
- to become again, start again
- (rajja3) to give back, return
Usage
Rja3 (imperfect "yarja3") means to come back or go home: "rja3 lel dar" (he went back home). Before another verb, it means "to start doing again" or "to become again": "rja3 yekhdem" (he went back to work). With a subject such as light or electricity, it indicates a return: "rja3 eddhaw". Constructed with "l" or "lel", it expresses a return to someone. The intensive form "rajja3" is transitive and means to give back or return: "rajja3li flousi" (give me back my money). Be careful not to confuse the two forms.
Example
ما ما عادش نرجع لك خاطرك في نظري تحرقت ..
mé ma3adech narja3léék 5atrék fi nadhri ta7ra9ét ..
“No, I won't come back to you anymore, because in my eyes you've blown it.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “rja3” but also “raja3”, “rje3”, “rjaa” and “rjaa3”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.
Digits stand in for Arabic letters that have no Latin equivalent: 3 is ayn (ع), a voiced sound from deep in the throat with no English equivalent.
Type “rja3” on the Arabic keyboard
In Moroccan Darija
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Moroccan Darija, where it means “to come back, return home”; “to become”: rje3 in Moroccan.
In Algerian Darja
Spelt the same way in Arabic, the word also exists in Algerian Darja, where it means “to return, come back”; “to become”: rja3 in Algerian.