أحيانا (ahyaanan) — "sometimes" in Modern Standard Arabic
أحيانا
aHyaanan
sometimes
- Topic
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- 2 of our stories
"sometimes" in the other dialects
بعْض المرّات
أحيانا in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
إن هذا الكم الهائل من الأسئلة يستنزف قدرتي المحدودة على الشرح والتفسير أحيانا
Inna hadha al-kamma al-ha'il min al-as'ilah yastanzifu qudrati al-mahdudah 'ala al-sharh wa al-tafsir ahianan.
Indeed, this enormous volume of questions sometimes exhausts my limited capacity for explanation and interpretation.
from Endless Curiosity
تحدثنا طويلا عن كيف تتطور الحياة وتصبح احيانا صعبة
tahaddathna taweelan an kayfa tatatawwaru alhayatu wa tusbihu ahyaanan saabatan
We talked a lot about how life develops and sometimes becomes difficult
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Practice time
8 questions, half of them spoken out loud. Free, no account needed.