Arabic vocabulary
كَانَتِwas/is
How to say “was/is” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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.
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