Arabic vocabulary
أَبَيْتُI spent the night
How to say “I spent the night” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَإِنْ دَخَلَ بَيْتَهُ ذَكَرَ اسْمَ اللَّهِ فَأَبَيْتُ خَارِجَ الدَّارِ
And if he entered his house and mentioned the Name of God, I would spend the night outside the house.
فَأَبَيْتُ — so I spent the night. The 'fa-' opens the result of the condition ('then'), and the verb is a past-tense first-person 'I spent the night'. It marks the consequence half of the if-then.
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