The fourth word of verse (37:29) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is second person masculine plural and is in the jussive mood (مجزوم). 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). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:29:4) takūnū you were
V – 2nd person masculine plural imperfect verb, jussive mood PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع مجزوم والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (37:29)

The analysis above refers to the 29th verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: The oppressors will say, "Rather, you [yourselves] were not 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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