כאן

כאן • (kāna) (non-past יכון‎ (yakūnu))

1. Judeo-Arabic spelling of كَانَ‎ (kāna)‎‎
   • c. 10th century, Saadia Gaon, Tafsir‎, Genesis 1:3:

     ‏ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃‎‎

     wašāʔa llāhu ʔan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.

     And God willed there to be light, and then there was light.

From כְּ־‎ + אָן‎ (“where”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): [kan]

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כָּאן • (kán)

1. Here, at this place.

• The adjective use is essentially a special case of the adverb use; hence, the adjective does not change form to agree with its subject.

כָּאן • (kán)

1. Here, at this place.

• Unlike English, Hebrew draws an obligatory distinction between “[at] here” and “[to] here”. כאן is the former; לכאן‎ (l'khán) is the latter.

כָּאן • (kán) ?

1. Here, this place.

• לְכָאן‎ (lekhán)
• עַד כָּאן‎ ('ad kán)