تَكُن been in Arabic
تَكُن is how you say “been” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وأنْبت الله شَجَرَة لم تكن قبل
And Allah caused a tree to grow that had not been there before.
تَكُنْ had been
A present-tense 'to be' verb clipped to the jussive by 'did not' (the final vowel dropped) — together 'was not', feminine to fit 'tree'. It says the tree had no prior existence.
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More example sentences
ولا تكن كالبهيمة التي لا همَّ لها إلا مرعاها،
and do not be like the beast whose only concern is its pasture,
تَكُنْ you be
This is a form of the verb 'to be' clipped into the command-negation shape by the forbidding particle, so the ending is shortened. The 'you' subject is inside it, and it links you to the predicate that follows, 'do not be like...'.