Arabic vocabulary
لَكِنَّكُمْbut you
How to say “but you” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَلَكِنَّكُمْ مِمَّنْ قُبِحَ بَاطِنُهُ فَرَأَى ظَاهِرَهُ،
But you are among those whose inward is ugly, so he displayed his outward appearance.
وَلَكِنَّكُمْ — but you. An adversative particle 'but / yet' fused with -kum, the attached 'you (a group)'. Its grammatical job is to mark a contrast against the prior statement and to push its noun-slot, here the attached 'you', into the accusative, opening a 'but you...' turn.
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