Arabic vocabulary
حِينٍa while
How to say “a while” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَجَاءَنِي بَعْدَ حِينٍ
After a while, he came to me.
حِينٍ — a while. An indefinite noun in the genitive, its ending set by the time word before it. The missing 'the' plus the genitive ending mark it as a vague, unspecified stretch of time, completing the 'after a while' phrase.
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