stage ستاج
Tunisian Derja · noun
“stage” (ستاج) is a noun in Tunisian Derja meaning work placement, training period.
Meanings
- work placement, training period
- temporary stint with someone (ironic)
Usage
Borrowed from French "stage", pronounced staj or stèj and fully integrated into Derja. It is the normal word for a study or end-of-degree internship: you say "3mel staj" (to do an internship) and "staj fi chirka" (an internship at a company). It is also heard in ironic expressions, meaning a stint or apprenticeship with a disreputable group or person. The most common plural is stajet. The word is masculine. Pitfall: spelling online varies between the French form "stage" and phonetic transcriptions such as staj.
Example
عملت ستاج في بنكة الصيف اللي فات
3malt staj fi banka es-sif elli fet
“I did an internship at a bank last summer.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “stage” but also “staj”, “stej” and “stèj”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.