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يَكُونُوا they be in Arabic

يَكُونُوا is how you say “they be” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَيَجِبُ أَنْ يَكُونُوا عَلَى مَعْرِفَةٍ بِهِ،

And they must be knowledgeable about it.

يَكُونُوا they be

A 'to be' verb whose ending -u marks a third-person 'they', pushed into its subjunctive shape by the 'that' before it — which is why the usual final -na drops to a bare 'they' form. The mood marks the required state, governed by 'must'. It carries the plural subject inside it.

From How the Companions Preserved Hadith

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