yaji'un
come, they comeThe word, broken down.
يَجيئون reads right to left. Below, each letter in reading order, with its sound and the keys that type it.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A short 'a', written as a small stroke above the letter.
A soft 'j' (a hard 'g' in Egyptian Arabic). One dot inside.
A 'y', or a long 'i' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A glottal stop carried on a dotless yāʾ.
A 'w', or a long 'u' vowel when it carries no vowel of its own.
A plain 'n'. A deep bowl with one dot above.
What does yaji'un mean in Arabizi?
yaji'un is how you write يَجيئون in Arabizi, the Arabic chat alphabet. It means “come, they come”. 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 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 →- 01D→ي
- 02Shift+Q→ـَfatḥa
- 03[→ج
- 04D→ي
- 05Z→ئ
- 06,→و
- 07K→ن
This page shows the written standard. In everyday Palestinian speech, “come” is aja (أَجَا). Our sister site Tfaddalu teaches the spoken dialect, with audio and example sentences. Hear aja on Tfaddalu →