tochrob تشرب
Tunisian Derja · verb
“tochrob” (تشرب) is a verb in Tunisian Derja meaning you drink / she drinks.
Meanings
- you drink / she drinks
- to drink (inflected form)
Usage
Tochrob is an inflected form of the verb chreb, "to drink". It corresponds to the second person singular ("you drink") or the third person feminine ("she drinks"). It is heard mostly in the hospitality formula "tochrob 7aja?", meaning "would you like something to drink?". This question is always asked of a guest. The verb is also used for smoking: "yochrob doukhan", he smokes cigarettes. The past is chrebt, "I drank / you drank". Pronunciation varies by region, between tochrob and tochreb.
Example
تشرب قهوة ولا تاي؟
tochrob kahwa wala tey?
“Are you having coffee or tea?”
How to write it in Latin letters
In Arabizi, Darija written in Latin letters, you will find “tochrob” but also “tochreb”, “toshrob” and “techreb”. No spelling is official: people write the sounds as they hear them.