Arabic vocabulary
مَتَىٰ is how you say “whenever” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
إِنَّكَ مَتَىٰ مَا يَرَاكَ الْنَّاسُ قَدْ تَخَلَّفْتَ
Indeed, whenever people see you, they say that you have fallen behind.
مَتَىٰ — whenever. A 'when' word that, paired with the small particle after it, builds a repeated-time 'whenever'. It opens a condition that recurs every time it is met.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →OpenArabic teaches words like مَتَىٰ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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