تخرج من المدرسة
“تخرج من المدرسة” (такхарраджа мин аль-мадраса) — to graduate from school in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. Not "finished" but "went out of": takharraja is the same root as khaarij, "outside". A graduate is the school's khaarij: the school lets one out, as through a gate. In a live sentence: “تخرج من المدرسة وعمره ثمانية عشر” — He graduated from school at eighteen. Written with the characters ت, خ, ر, ج, م, ن, ا, ل, م, د, ر, س…
In short
| Written in Arabic | تخرج من المدرسة |
| Read in Latin letters | такхарраджа мин аль-мадраса |
| Translation | to graduate from school |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Not "finished" but "went out of": takharraja is the same root as khaarij, "outside". A graduate is the school's khaarij: the school lets one out, as through a gate
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- تخرج من المدرسة وعمره ثمانية عشرтакхарраджа мин аль-мадраса ва-ʿумруху самаанийя ʿашарHe graduated from school at eighteen
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to graduate from school” in Arabic?
«تخرج من المدرسة», read “такхарраджа мин аль-мадраса”. In a live sentence: “تخرج من المدرسة وعمره ثمانية عشر” — He graduated from school at eighteen. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ت, خ, ر, ج, م, ن, ا, ل, م, د, ر, س…
How is “تخرج من المدرسة” written in Latin letters?
такхарраджа мин аль-мадраса. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Not "finished" but "went out of": takharraja is the same root as khaarij, "outside". A graduate is the school's khaarij: the school lets one out, as through a gate. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.