Arabic vocabulary

أَكُونَbe in Arabic

أَكُونَ is how you say “be” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يقدمن أحد منكم إلى شيء حتى أكون أنا دونه
The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: 'None of you should advance towards anything until I am ahead of him.'
أَكُونَ — I am. A present-tense verb 'to be' with the 'I' subject built in, sitting in the subjunctive ending demanded by the preceding 'until', so it reads as the aim, 'until I am'. The subjunctive shape is the audible mark of being governed by that 'until'; the speaker is inside the form.
From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →

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