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Verse (10:30), Word 15 - Quranic Grammar

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The fifteenth word of verse (10:30) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (كان) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (10) sūrat yūnus (Jonah)


(10:30:15)
kānū
they used (to)
V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb
PRON – subject pronoun
فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (10:30)

The analysis above refers to the 30th verse of chapter 10 (sūrat yūnus):

Sahih International: There, [on that Day], every soul will be put to trial for what it did previously, and they will be returned to Allah , their master, the Truth, and lost from them is whatever they used to invent.

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