كَانَتِ was/is in Arabic
كَانَتِ is how you say “was/is” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَلِهَذَا كَانَت الْعِبَادَة لَا تصلح إِلَّا لله
And for this reason, worship is suitable for none but Allah.
كَانَتِ it was
This is the past tense of the verb 'to be' carrying a feminine 'it' subject, the verb Arabic uses to anchor a description in past or settled time. The feminine ending agrees with the feminine noun 'worship' that follows as its subject.
The English is machine-translated.

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