The third word of verse (18:20) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the subjunctive mood (منصوب). The verb's triliteral root is ẓā hā rā (ظ ه ر). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) (18:20:3) yaẓharū they come to know
V – 3rd person masculine plural imperfect verb, subjunctive mood PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع منصوب والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (18:20)

The analysis above refers to the twentieth verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf):

Sahih International: Indeed, if they come to know of you, they will stone you or return you to their religion. And never would you succeed, then - ever."

See Also

• English Translations
• The Subjunctive and Jussive Moods
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root ẓā hā rā

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