The eighth word of verse (28:40) 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 (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:40:8) kāna was
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (28:40)

The analysis above refers to the 40th verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: So We took him and his soldiers and threw them into the sea. So see how was the end of the wrongdoers.

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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