لَكِنِّي but I in Arabic
لَكِنِّي is how you say “but I” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ الآخَرُ لَكِنِّي مَعَ رَجُلٍ إِنْ أَكَلَ لَمْ يَسْمِ اللَّهَ فَأَكَلْتُ أَنَا وَهُوَ جَمِيعًا
The other said, 'But I am with a man; if he eats without saying the name of God, then I and he eat together.'
لِكُنًى but I
An adversative 'but / however' carrying the first-person ending '-i' (I), opening a contrast with the previous speaker. The particle flags that this man's situation is the opposite case.
The English is machine-translated.

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