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فَبَيْنَمَا and while in Arabic

فَبَيْنَمَا is how you say “and while” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا عِنْدَهُ جَالِسٌ إِذْ دَقَّ دَاقُ الْبَابِ

While I was sitting with him, there came a knock at the door.

فبينا and while

A 'while' connector, opened by the attached 'and/so', that sets up a background scene interrupted by a sudden event. It opens the 'while I was...' frame whose interruption the next clause delivers.

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