فَكَانَwas in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَكَانَ زُوَّارُ بَغْدَادِ يَحْرِصُونَ عَلَى حُضُورِ مَجَالِسِهِ

  Visitors to Baghdad were eager to attend his sessions.

  فَكَانَ — so he was. A past-tense 'was/were' with fa- joined on front. fa- carries the narrative forward ('and so'). This copula sets up a was-doing-something frame: paired with the present verb later, it shifts that present into past habitual, 'used to be eager'. Its subject is named next.

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