Arabic vocabulary
How to say “a short while ago” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
خَبَّرَنِي بِهِنَّ آنِفَا جِبْرِيلُ
Gabriel told me about them a short while ago.
آنِفَا — a short while ago. An adverb of recent time meaning 'just now', set in the state-ending to fix when the informing happened. It modifies the verb by pinning the telling to the immediate past.
From: What Was Created First →OpenArabic teaches words like آنِفَا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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