Arabic vocabulary
How to say “came to me” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَأَتَانِيٓ آتٍ فَجَعَلَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَأَخَذْتُهُ،
Then a man came to me and began scooping up the food, so I seized him.
فَأَتَانِيٓ — so he came to me. A past-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in and an attached 'me' pronoun as the one come to. The opening 'fa-' moves the narrative to its next event. One word holds the action, its doer, and its goal together.
From: The Verse of the Throne →OpenArabic teaches words like أَتَانِيٓ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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