The third word of verse (17:73) is divided into 4 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix, verb, subject pronoun and object pronoun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is fā tā nūn (ف ت ن). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun. The attached object pronoun is second person masculine singular.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) (17:73:3) layaftinūnaka tempt you away
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām V – 3rd person masculine plural imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun PRON – 2nd person masculine singular object pronoun	اللام لام التوكيد فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل والكاف ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (17:73)

The analysis above refers to the 73rd verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā):

Sahih International: And indeed, they were about to tempt you away from that which We revealed to you in order to [make] you invent about Us something else; and then they would have taken you as a friend.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root fā tā nūn

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