Arabic vocabulary
فَبَيْنَمَاand while
How to say “and while” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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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