Arabic vocabulary
هُنَاكُمْ is how you say “among you” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَيَقُولُ لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ ـ
And he will say, 'I am not among you—'
هُنَاكُمْ — among you. A place-word, 'there', built up with -kum ('you all') fused on, giving a sense like 'there among you'. It serves as the predicate of the negative 'to be' before it, completing 'I am not there with you'. The plural suffix ties the spot to the addressed group.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →فَيَقُولُ لَسْتُ هُنَاكُمْ ـ
Then he says, "I am not there among you."
هُنَاكُمْ — there among you. A place-word, 'there', with -kum ('you all') fused on, giving 'there among you'. It serves as the predicate of the negative 'to be' before it, completing 'I am not there with you'. The plural suffix ties the spot to the addressed group.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →OpenArabic teaches words like هُنَاكُمْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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