فَكَانَ was in Arabic
فَكَانَ is how you say “was” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Example sentence
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.
The English is machine-translated.
Practise this word in the app
One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.
Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.
Free. No ads. No subscription.
An account is needed in the app.
