Arabic vocabulary
وَتَارَةً is how you say “and sometimes” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَتَارَةً لَهُ وَتَارَةً عَلَيْهِ
Sometimes it is in his favor, and sometimes it is against him.
وَتَارَةً — and sometimes. The joining 'wa-' opens the second half of the 'sometimes... sometimes...' frame, and the noun again works as a time-adverb 'at another time'. The conjunction marks the pivot to the contrasting case.
From: Staying Firm in Faith →OpenArabic teaches words like وَتَارَةً through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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