extremely in Arabic: جدا (jiddan) – meaning, pronunciation, examples

How to use it

جِدًّا is the most common way to say ‘extremely’ in Modern Standard Arabic. It follows the word it intensifies.

هَذَا الفِيلْمُ جِدًّا مُثِيرٌ.

hādhā al-fīlmu jiddan muṯīr.

This movie is extremely exciting.
هُوَ جِدًّا سَعِيدٌ بَعْدَ النَّجَاحِ.

huwa jiddan saʿīdun baʿda al-najāḥi.

He is extremely happy after the success.
الطَّقْسُ جِدًّا حَارٌّ اليَوْمَ.

al-ṭaqsu jiddan ḥārrun al-yawma.

The weather is extremely hot today.

Sentences taken from published bilingual texts (subtitles, documents). They show the word in context and are not reviewed one by one.

Sami is extremely shy.

سامي شديد الخجل.

This is extremely hard.

هذا صعبٌ جداً.

Sami was extremely upset.

كان سامي مستاءا بشدّة.

Extremely profound experience.

تجربة عميقة للغاية.

(Footage extremely disturbing)

(اللّقطات مزعجة جدًا).

The budget is extremely small.

الميزانية قليلة جدا.

But that is extremely unlikely.

ولكن هذا من غير المرجح على الإطلاق.

They were extremely well-funded.

فهم مُمَولون بصورة ممتازة

It must've been extremely painful.

لابد أنه كان مؤلماً للغاية

Army everywhere and extremely violent.

الجيش في كل مكان وبعنف شديد.

Both solutions are extremely traumatic.

والحقيقة أن الحلين مؤلمان للغاية.

Today, migration is extremely circumscribed.

واليوم أصبحت الهجرة مقيدة إلى حد كبير.

Can جِدًّا be used before nouns?

No, it modifies adjectives or other adverbs, not nouns directly.

Is there a synonym for جِدًّا?

Very common synonyms are بَشَدة and شَدِيدًا.