وجد أول عمل
“وجد أول عمل” (ваджада аувваль ʿамаль) — to find one's first job in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. "To find a job" Arabic takes literally: wajada, "found". ʿAmal, "work", you had; "first" is carried by awwal — the same as in "firstly". In a live sentence: “وجد أول عمل في السنة الأولى بعد الجامعة” — He found his first job in the first year after university. Written with the characters و, ج, د, أ, و, ل, ع, م, ل.
In short
| Written in Arabic | وجد أول عمل |
| Read in Latin letters | ваджада аувваль ʿамаль |
| Translation | to find one's first job |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
"To find a job" Arabic takes literally: wajada, "found". ʿAmal, "work", you had; "first" is carried by awwal — the same as in "firstly"
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.
- وجد أول عمل في السنة الأولى بعد الجامعةваджада аувваль ʿамаль фи ас-сана аль-ууля баʿд аль-джямияHe found his first job in the first year after university
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 find one's first job” in Arabic?
«وجد أول عمل», read “ваджада аувваль ʿамаль”. In a live sentence: “وجد أول عمل في السنة الأولى بعد الجامعة” — He found his first job in the first year after university. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters و, ج, د, أ, و, ل, ع, م, ل.
How is “وجد أول عمل” written in Latin letters?
ваджада аувваль ʿамаль. 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?
"To find a job" Arabic takes literally: wajada, "found". ʿAmal, "work", you had; "first" is carried by awwal — the same as in "firstly". A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.