Arabic vocabulary
How to say “whenever” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وكلما لاح آمال فؤادي دار على مرادي الفلك،
Every time the hopes of my heart appear, the course of fate aligns with my desire.
وَكُلَّمَا — and every time. This combines wa- with a word meaning 'every time', which sets up an open-ended condition: whenever the first thing happens, the second follows. It pairs two past-tense verbs to express a repeating rule, the way English uses 'whenever ... then'.
From: Victory Belongs to God →وكلما جاء عرفي شب في العلم وما أنفرك،
Every time my reputation spreads, I grow in knowledge and you do not turn away.
وَكُلَّمَا — and every time. Again wa- joins to 'every time' to set an open condition: each occurrence of the first event triggers the second. The construction expects a past-tense verb right after and reads as a standing rule, like English 'whenever'.
From: Victory Belongs to God →وكلما نصب إبليس لي شركًا خرقت ذلك الشرك،
Every time Satan set a trap for me, I destroyed that trap.
وَكُلَّمَا — and every time. wa- joins to 'every time', setting an open-ended condition where each occurrence of one event brings on another. It frames a repeating pattern between Satan's trap-setting and the speaker's breaking it, like English 'whenever ... then'.
From: Victory Belongs to God →OpenArabic teaches words like كُلَّمَا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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