The eighteenth word of verse (12:109) is a perfect verb (فعل ماض). The verb is third person masculine singular. 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).

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) (12:109:18) kāna was
V – 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb	فعل ماض

Verse (12:109)

The analysis above refers to the 109th verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf):

Sahih International: And We sent not before you [as messengers] except men to whom We revealed from among the people of cities. So have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? And the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah ; then will you not reason?

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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