Learn How To Count In Moroccan Arabic – Numbers in Darija

Learning how to count in Moroccan Arabic is a basic yet very important skill to any Darija language learners, using it you can tell the hour, your age, understand the cost of something or even tell how long you’re staying in a certain place.

So in this post you will learn how to count from 0 to 20 in Moroccan Arabic and then learn how to say numbers until 1 Billion! yes you read it right.

Counting From 0 To 20 In Moroccan Arabic

Number	Transcribed Moroccan Arabic	Using Arabic Alphabet
0	Zero/Sifr	زيرو/صفر
1	Wa7ed	واحد
2	Juj	جوج
3	Tlata	تلاتة
4	Rb3a	ربعة
5	Khmsa	خمسة
6	Setta	ستة
7	Sb3a	سبعة
8	Tmanya	تمنية
9	Ts3a	تسعة
10	3eshra	عشرة
11	7dash	حداش
12	Tnash	طناش
13	Tlattash	تلطاش
14	Rba3tash	ربعطاش
15	Khmastash	خمسطاش
16	Settash	سطاش
17	Sb3tash	سبعطاش
18	Tmantash	تمنطاش
19	Ts3tash	تسعطاش
20	3eshrin	عشرين

Counting Objects and People In Darija

To count anything in Moroccan Arabic, we use this simple formula:

Number + dyal/d (ديال/د) + definete plural noun

(“d” is a short form of “dyal” meaning “of”)

So, 2 girls would be:

Juj dyal lbnat (جوج ديال لبنات) Bnat is the plural of Bnt, and L is the definite article here.

There is an exception with the number 2 that you can simply say “2 bnat” without “dyal/d”, but remember, only with the number 2.

3 girls: tlata dyal lbnat

Try to count girls from 1 girl to 20, that would be weird but anyway lol

PLEASE NOTE: I don’t want you to think a lot about difinite/indifinite articles, plural forms, feminine/masculine nouns or any grammar rule for now, just try to follow the instructions to acquire the language in a better way.

Double Digits

As we talked about in The Beginner’s Guide To Moroccan Arabic , (which I highly recommend that you read), 21 is wa7ed w3shrin literally “one and twenty”, 23 is tlata w3shrin, 24 is rb3a w3shrin, cool! but there is an exception with the number 2 here again: for 22 we don’t say “juj w3shrin”, we use tnin instead of juj, so 22 would be tnin w3shrin, same rules apply for 32, 42, 52…

Multiples Of 10

Number	Transcribed Moroccan Arabic	Using Arabic Alphabet
10	3shra	عشرة
20	3shrin	عشرين
30	tlatin	تلاتين
40	rb3in	ربعين
50	5msin/khmsin	خمسين
60	settin	ستين
70	sb3in	سبعين
80	tmanin	تمانين
90	ts3in	تسعين

Hundreds And Beyond

If you can’t remember them or they are a little hard, add the number to 100 (mya), for example 400 is rb3amya, it’s not 100% correct but people will still understand you, but use the correct form listed below once you get familiar with it deal?

Number	Transcribed Moroccan Arabic	Using Arabic Alphabet
100	mya	مية
200	mitin	ميتين
300	tltmya	تلتمية
400	rb3amya	ربعمية
500	5msamya/khmsamya	خمسمية
600	settamya	ستمية
700	sb3amya	سبعمية
800	temnemya	تمنمية
900	ts3amya	تسعمية

Counting From 1000 To 9000

The word 1000 is alf, 2000 is alfin and “thousands” is alaf, so from 3000 you literally say three thousands: tlatalaf, same with the others:

Number	Transcribed Moroccan Arabic	Using Arabic Alphabet
1000	alf	ألف
2000	alfin	ألفين
3000	tlatalaf	تلتالاف
4000	rb3alaf	ربعالاف
5000	5msalaf/khmsalaf	خمسالاف
6000	settalaf	ستالاف
7000	sb3alaf	سبعالاف
8000	temnalaf	تمنالاف
9000	ts3alaf	تسعالاف

Let’s see some big numbers:

Number	Transcribed Moroccan Arabic	Using Arabic Alphabet
10.000	3eshralaf	عشرآلاف
20.000	3shrin alf	عشرين ألف
30.000	tlatin alf	تلاتين ألف
40.000	rb3in alf	ربعين ألف
100.000	myat alf	مية ألف
200.000	mitin alf	ميتين ألف
500.000	5msmyat alf	خمسمية ألف
1.000.000	melion	مليون
2.000.000	juj melion	جوج مليون
1.000.000.000	meliar	مليار
5682	khemsalaf w settemya w tnin w tmanin	خمسالاف و ستمية و تنين و تمانين
2022	alfin wtnin w3shrin	ألفين و تنين و عشرين

Feel free to repeat and try to say random numbers in Darija.

Continue learning Moroccan Arabic with us here.

Happy learning!