The fifth word of verse (27:54) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do". The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is second person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is hamza tā yā (أ ت ي). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (27) sūrat l-naml (The Ants) (27:54:5) atatūna "Do you commit
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif V – 2nd person masculine plural imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الهمزة همزة استفهام فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (27:54)

The analysis above refers to the 54th verse of chapter 27 (sūrat l-naml):

Sahih International: And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality while you are seeing?

See Also

• English Translations
• The Particle alif (أ)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza tā yā

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