The third word of verse (25:51) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is first person plural. The verb's triliteral root is bā ʿayn thā (ب ع ث). The suffix (نا) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion) (25:51:3) labaʿathnā surely, We (would) have raised
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām V – 1st person plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	اللام لام التوكيد فعل ماض و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (25:51)

The analysis above refers to the 51st verse of chapter 25 (sūrat l-fur'qān):

Sahih International: And if We had willed, We could have sent into every city a warner.

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 bā ʿayn thā

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