The tenth word of verse (27:20) is a perfect verb (فعل ماض). The verb 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 (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants) (27:20:10) kāna is he
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (27:20)

The analysis above refers to the twentieth verse of chapter 27 (sūrat l-naml):

Sahih International: And he took attendance of the birds and said, "Why do I not see the hoopoe - or is he among the absent?

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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