Arabic vocabulary
كُنتُمْ is how you say “you were” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَأَبْشِرُوا بِالْجَنَّةِ الَّتِي كُنتُمْ تُوَعَدُونَ
Give glad tidings of the Paradise that you were promised.
كُنتُمْ — you were. This is the past tense of 'to be' carrying a second-person plural subject ('you all'). Paired with the verb after it, it builds a past-continuous frame, 'you used to be promised', so its job is to set the action in the past for a whole group.
From: Three States of the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like كُنتُمْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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