Arabic vocabulary
How to say “spend the night” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
يَبِيتُ عِنْدَهُمَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ،
Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr spent the night at their place.
يَبِيتُ — spends the night. A present-shaped verb used for a repeated past habit, 'would spend the night'; Arabic often uses the present form inside a past story to paint an ongoing or recurring action. So it sets a nightly routine rather than a single act, with the named subject following.
From: The Secret Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like يَبِيتُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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