The eleventh word of verse (12:21) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and object pronoun. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine singular and is in the subjunctive mood (منصوب). The verb's triliteral root is nūn fā ʿayn (ن ف ع). The attached object pronoun is first person plural.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) (12:21:11) yanfaʿanā (he) will benefit us
V – 3rd person masculine singular imperfect verb, subjunctive mood PRON – 1st person plural object pronoun	فعل مضارع منصوب و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (12:21)

The analysis above refers to the 21st verse of chapter 12 (sūrat yūsuf):

Sahih International: And the one from Egypt who bought him said to his wife, "Make his residence comfortable. Perhaps he will benefit us, or we will adopt him as a son." And thus, We established Joseph in the land that We might teach him the interpretation of events. And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know.

See Also

• English Translations
• The Subjunctive and Jussive Moods
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root nūn fā ʿayn

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