The tenth word of verse (21:82) 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 first person 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 (نا) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) (21:82:10) wakunnā And We were
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 1st person plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (21:82)

The analysis above refers to the 82nd verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa):

Sahih International: And of the devils were those who dived for him and did work other than that. And We were of them a guardian.

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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