tadhhab
you go, she goesThe word, broken down.
تَذْهَب reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A plain 't'. The same body as bāʾ, but with two dots above.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
The 'th' in 'this'. Like dāl, with one dot above.
A soft 'h', as in the English word 'hat'.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A plain 'b'. A tooth-shaped body with one dot below.
What does tadhhab mean in Arabizi?
tadhhab is how you write تَذْهَب in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “you go, she goes”. No numbers in this one; it spells out in plain Latin letters.
New to the chat alphabet? See how every letter and number maps: the Arabizi → Arabic guide. Got it the other way round, with Arabic script to convert? That is the Arabic to Arabizi converter.
The keystrokes, in order.
On a standard Arabic 101 / Arabic-PC layout — 7 key presses. Diacritics sit on the Shift keys. The on-screen keyboard on this site highlights each key as you go.
It sits in the time lesson of our Arabic typing practice course, if you would rather drill it next to the words it turns up with.
Practice typing this word →- 01J→ت
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03`→ذ
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05I→ه
- 06Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 07F→ب
Getting the sounds right.
TADH-hab. The dh is a single letter, ذ, and it's the th of "this", not the th of "thin". A real h comes straight after it, so the middle of the word is two sounds back to back: tath, then hab. Stress the first syllable.
Example sentences.
Sentences using تَذْهَب, with diacritics so the rhythm is unambiguous.
The present tense.
An Arabic verb changes with whoever is doing it. The row for this page is marked.
tadhhab is the written word. You'll see it in books and hear it on the news, and it means both “you go” (to a man) and “she goes”. On the street it's rare. Levantine and Egyptian speakers say truu7 (تروح) instead.