كان علينا in English translation

• we had to
• we should
• we were
• if we
• we must
• we wanted
• we would have had to
• we probably
• we have to
• we are

Examples of using كان علينا in Arabic and their translations into English

ماذا كان علينا فعله غير هذا؟?
What else were we supposed to do?

كان علينا إعدادك لهذا
We should have prepped you.

لمَ كان علينا اللحاقُ بها؟?
Why did we have to follow her?

لماذا كان علينا الخوض فى كل هذا؟?
Why did we have to go through all this nonsense?

كلا, كان علينا البقاء سوية كان هذا كل ما في الأمر
Oh, no, we-we had to stick together. That's what it was all about.

لماذا كان علينا الذهاب بعيداً في اول رحلة تخييم لي؟?
Why did we have to come so far on my first camping trip?

هذهِ البحيرة الغبية، لماذا كان علينا المجيء ألى هُنا؟?
The stupid lake! Why did we have to come here?

أجل، ولمَ كان علينا فعل هذا منذ خروجنا من المنزل؟?
Yeah. And why did we have to do this all the way from home?

والأكثر اهميه كان علينا العودة لان هؤلاء الناس في افغانستان هم الابطال
But more importantly, we wanted to go back, because these people in Afghanistan were the heroes.

اسمع، كان علينا أن نتكلّم معك حول هذا قبل أن يحدث، لكن
Look, we probably should have talked to you about this before it ever happened.- But.

منذ أن فشلت المفاوضات مع قرية تشين كان علينا الأعتماد على قوة الثورة الصناعية
Since the negotiations with the Chen Village have failed we have to rely on the power of the industrial revolution.

أعلم أنّنا سبقَ و تحدّثنا، لكن لم نكن نعلم أنّنا نتحدّث. حتّى أنّنا تحدّثنا في أمورٍ ما كان علينا التحدّث عنها…-علاقتي العابرة مثلاً
I know that we have talked, but we didn't know that we were talking, and we talked about things we probably shouldn't have even talked about… one-night stands and the like.

كان عليه
It was him.

كان عليه
It was like.

كان عليه
Was it for.

كان عليه
IT WAS, UH.

أبدا كان عليه
Never had it.

ما كان عليه
What was it like.

I كان عليه
I was it.

كان عليّ التأكد
I had to be sure.