Arabic vocabulary
فَبَيْنَاso while
How to say “so while” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَبَيْنَا نَحْنُ يَوْمًا جُلُوسٌ فِي بَيْتِنَا
One day, while we were sitting in our house.
فَبَيْنَا — so while. A fused opener: fa- as 'so' plus a time-connector meaning 'while / in the midst of', together setting up a backdrop clause. It frames what follows as the ongoing scene against which the next sudden event breaks in, the classic 'while we were ... , suddenly ...' structure.
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