The eighteenth word of verse (25:20) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A conjunction and verb. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine 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).

Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion) (25:20:18) wakāna And is
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض

Verse (25:20)

The analysis above refers to the twentieth verse of chapter 25 (sūrat l-fur'qān):

Sahih International: And We did not send before you, [O Muhammad], any of the messengers except that they ate food and walked in the markets. And We have made some of you [people] as trial for others - will you have patience? And ever is your Lord, Seeing.

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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