The fourth word of verse (11:97) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A resumption particle, verb and subject pronoun. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The form VIII perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is tā bā ʿayn (ت ب ع). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (11) sūrat hūd (Hud) (11:97:4) fa-ittabaʿū but they followed
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person masculine plural (form VIII) perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (11:97)

The analysis above refers to the 97th verse of chapter 11 (sūrat hūd):

Sahih International: To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they followed the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was not [at all] discerning.

See Also

• English Translations
• Verb Forms in Quranic Grammar
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root tā bā ʿayn

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