Arabic vocabulary
كُنتُمْyou were
How to say “you were” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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.
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