3indna
we haveThe word, broken down.
عِنْدنا reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A voiced sound from deep in the throat. Arabizi writes it '3'.
A short 'i', written as a small stroke below the letter.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A plain 'd'. A small hook with no dots.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
A long 'a' vowel. A single upright stroke, and the first letter of the alphabet.
What does 3indna mean in Arabizi?
3indna is how you write عِنْدنا in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “we have”.
The 3 stands for ع (ayn): a throaty sound. No clean English equivalent. 3 is a mirrored ع.
For the rest of the chat alphabet, see 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 travel & places 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 →- 01U→ع
- 02Shift+A→ـِkasra
- 03K→ن
- 04Shift+X→ـْ
- 05]→د
- 06K→ن
- 07H→ا