The sixteenth word of verse (28:47) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A conjunction and verb. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is first person plural and is in the subjunctive mood (منصوب). The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (نكون) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها).

Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:47:16) wanakūna and we (would) have been
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 1st person plural imperfect verb, subjunctive mood	الواو عاطفة فعل مضارع منصوب

Verse (28:47)

The analysis above refers to the 47th verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: And if not that a disaster should strike them for what their hands put forth [of sins] and they would say, "Our Lord, why did You not send us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses and been among the believers?"...

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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