Learn five words about shopping
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| 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 |
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| [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. |
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| 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). |
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| 5. |
| 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)] |
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