The eighteenth word of verse (11:87) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and personal pronoun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The personal pronoun is second person masculine singular.

Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud) (11:87:18) la-anta surely you
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām PRON – 2nd person masculine singular personal pronoun	اللام لام التوكيد ضمير منفصل

Verse (11:87)

The analysis above refers to the 87th verse of chapter 11 (sūrat hūd):

Sahih International: They said, "O Shu'ayb, does your prayer command you that we should leave what our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are the forbearing, the discerning!"

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse

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