The first word of verse (11:38) 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 third person masculine singular and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is ṣād nūn ʿayn (ص ن ع).

Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud) (11:38:1) wayaṣnaʿu And he was constructing
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine singular imperfect verb	الواو عاطفة فعل مضارع

Verse (11:38)

The analysis above refers to the 38th verse of chapter 11 (sūrat hūd):

Sahih International: And he constructed the ship, and whenever an assembly of the eminent of his people passed by him, they ridiculed him. He said, "If you ridicule us, then we will ridicule you just as you ridicule.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root ṣād nūn ʿayn

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