The ninth word of verse (24:12) 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 qāf wāw lām (ق و ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light) (24:12:9) waqālū and say,
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 فاعل

Verse (24:12)

The analysis above refers to the twelfth verse of chapter 24 (sūrat l-nūr):

Sahih International: Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?

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 qāf wāw lām

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