Shopping

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Also Appears In: Moroccan Arabic Words of the Week Throwback Thursday

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Lesson Transcript

Hi welcome to Arabic weekly words and let’s find out this week’s topic. It’s something all girls are crazy about, it’s shopping. Shopping is – you know in Fusa its [التسوق (attasawuq)] but in Darija, we say just [نتقداو (ntqedaw)] is like to go shopping and that is to buy things.

First word is

[تخفيضا ت] sales.

We have the same word in Darija, we say takhfîDât

كنمشي نشري لحوايج غي فاش كايكون و

التخفيضات

kanmshî nshrî lHwâyj ghî fâsh kâykûnû ttakhfîDât.

I only buy clothes when there are sales.

Next word

2. إشترى

[إشترى (ishtara)] is to buy and

in Moroccan Arabic Darija we say [شرى (shrâ)] that close

يالاه شرى دار و طوموبيل جديدة

yâllâh shrâ dâr w Tômôbîl jdîda.

He just bought a house and a new car.

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3.ساوم

[ساوم] is to bargain.

In Darija, we say [تاوا (tâwâ)] a good sentence with this would be

إلا مشيتي للسوق ف مراكش ضروري خاص ك

تاوا

’ilâ mshîtî lssûq f mrrâksh Darûrî khâSSk tâwâ

if you go to shops in Marrakesh, you really have to bargain. And

next word is

4.مركز تجاري

[المول] it means mall and

in Moroccan Darija, we could just say [المول (lmôl)] just an English word

ف مراكش تحلو بزاف ديال لمول مؤخرا

fmrrâksh tHallû bzzâf dyâl limôl mu’akhkharan.

Recently in Marrakesh, many, many new malls often opened (0:01:22).

Next word,

سوق

market. Market or [سوق(sûq)] it means market and

it’s the same word in Arabic. In Morocco, when we say [sūq] it could be like a market for clothes and market for like vegetables and fruits and market like anywhere where you can buy stuff.

هي خاصها بزاف تلحوايج خاصها تمشي للسوق دابا

hiya khâShâ bzzâf t laHwâyj khâShâ tmshî lssûq dâbâ.

She needs a lot of things. She has to go to the market now.

That was the serial words for shopping. Thank you for joining us and I will see you next week [بسلامة( bslama)]