The 21st word of verse (21:87) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is first person singular. 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 (التاء) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) (21:87:21) kuntu I am
V – 1st person singular perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل ماض والتاء ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (21:87)

The analysis above refers to the 87th verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa):

Sahih International: And [mention] the man of the fish, when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, "There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers."

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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