tdhal تضل
Tunisian Derja · verb
“tdhal” (تضل) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning to keep (doing something).
Meanings
- to keep (doing something)
- to remain, to stay
Usage
Conjugated form (second person, or third person feminine) of the verb dhall / dhal, "to stay, to continue". Followed by a verb in the imperfective, it marks an ongoing or repeated action: tdhall tekdheb, "you keep lying". Alone or followed by an adjective, it means "to remain in a state": la notification tdhall dhahra, "stays displayed". It is common in speech and informal writing, competing with qa3ed, which is more frequent in the same sense. Do not confuse it with the standard Arabic verb dalla, "to go astray". In Arabic, spellings with ض and ظ coexist.
Example
علاش تضل تستنّى فيه؟ راهو موش جاي.
3lech tdhall testanna fih? rahou mouch jey.
“Why do you keep waiting for him? He's not coming.”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tdhal” but also “tdhall”, “tdhel”, “tadhal” and “tdhol”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.