أَبَيْتُI spent the night in Arabic

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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