The first word of verse (20:121) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb and subject pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine dual. The verb's triliteral root is hamza kāf lām (أ ك ل). The suffix (الألف) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (20) sūrat ṭā hā (20:121:1) fa-akalā Then they both ate
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person masculine dual perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض والألف ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (20:121)

The analysis above refers to the 121st verse of chapter 20 (sūrat ṭā hā):

Sahih International: And Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.

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 hamza kāf lām

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