כאן

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

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.

From Arabic كَانَ‎ (kāna).

כאן (kāna) (impf. יכון‎, yakūnu)

1. to be
   • Genesis 1:3 in Saadia Gaon's Tafsir (circa 10th century)

     ‏ושא אללה אן יכון נור פכאן נור׃‎‎

     wašāʾa llāhu ʾan yakūna nūrun fakāna nūrun.

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