Lesson 38 · Elementary · 4 min · 0:22 of audio
At the 7anout: the corner shop
Asking if something is in stock, buying bread, and sorting out change.
- Unreviewed: this lesson’s Darija and translations have not yet been checked by a native speaker.
- Placeholder audio: a computer voice, not a native Darija speaker. Real recordings are coming.
At the 7anout: the corner shop
In this lesson
- Ask if something is available with “wach 3ndek…?”
- Buy a few basics
- Pay with a big note and understand the change
The 7anout, the neighbourhood corner shop, sells a bit of everything. The shopkeeper (“moul l7anout”) often knows everyone.
Dialogue
How to read the transliteration
Darija is written here in Latin letters, the way many Moroccans text. A few symbols stand for sounds English, French and Swedish don't have:
- 3
- a tight sound from the throat (Arabic ع)
- 7
- a breathy h, stronger than English h (ح)
- 9
- a k made deep in the throat (ق)
- gh
- like a French r (غ)
- kh
- like the ch in Scottish loch or German Bach (خ)
- ch
- like English sh (ش)
Vocabulary
- wachواش
- yes/no question wordPut “wach” at the start of a sentence to turn it into a question.
- 3ndek / 3ndiعندك / عندي
- you have / I have
- kaynكاين
- there is
- khobz / khobzaخبز / خبزة
- bread / a loaf
- jbenالجبن
- cheese
- hadchiهادشي
- this, all this
- sserfالصرف
- change (coins, small notes)
- machi mochkilماشي مشكل
- no problem
- moul l7anoutمول الحانوت
- the shopkeeper“Moul” = the owner of…: moul taxi, moul l7out.
Repeat after me
Play a phrase, then say it out loud during the pause.
Salam, wach 3ndek lma bared?
Hi, do you have cold water?
3tini juj khobzat w chwiya d jben.
Give me two loaves of bread and a bit of cheese.
Ma 3ndich sserf. Wach 3ndek sserf dyal mya?
I don’t have change. Do you have change for a hundred?
Quiz
Your turn
Ask the shopkeeper if they have two items, buy them, and ask for change for 200.
Show an example answer
Wach 3ndek lben w lbid? … Wach 3ndek sserf dyal mitayn?
واش عندك اللبن والبيض؟ … واش عندك الصرف ديال ميتين؟
Do you have lben and eggs? … Do you have change for two hundred?
Summary
“Wach 3ndek…?”, “kayn / makaynch”, “hadchi kaml b…”, and “ma 3ndich sserf” when you only have a big note.
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