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فِي
in /ˈfiː/
particleA1#6 most common
Also: at, within, during
Example sentences
أَنَا فِي البَيْتِ.
I am in the house.
الكِتَابُ فِي الحَقِيبَةِ.
The book is in the bag.
نَلْتَقِي فِي الصَّبَاحِ أَمَامَ المَدْرَسَةِ.
We meet in the morning in front of the school.
فَكَّرْتُ فِي هَذَا المَوْضُوعِ طَوِيلاً قَبْلَ أَنْ أُقَرِّرَ.
I thought about this subject for a long time before deciding.
فِي الحَقِيقَةِ، لَمْ أَكُنْ مُتَأَكِّداً مِنْ قَرَارِي فِي تِلْكَ اللَّحْظَةِ.
In truth, I was not sure of my decision at that moment.
تَكْمُنُ المُشْكِلَةُ الحَقِيقِيَّةُ فِي عَدَمِ قُدْرَتِنَا عَلَى التَّكَيُّفِ مَعَ التَّغْيِيرَاتِ المُتَسَارِعَةِ.
The real problem lies in our inability to adapt to rapid changes.
Word family
Etymology
فِي is one of the inherited primitive prepositions (حروف الجرّ) of Arabic, inherited from Proto-Semitic and not derived from any verbal root. It marks containment, location in space or time, and abstract 'aboutness' (e.g. thinking 'in/about' something). As a closed-class function word it has been morphologically stable throughout the recorded history of Arabic.
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