The thirteenth word of verse (21:73) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". 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 (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) (21:73:13) wakānū and they were
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (21:73)

The analysis above refers to the 73rd verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa):

Sahih International: And We made them leaders guiding by Our command. And We inspired to them the doing of good deeds, establishment of prayer, and giving of zakah; and they were worshippers of Us.

See Also

• English Translations
• The Verb kāna (كان واخواتها)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root kāf wāw nūn

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