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Verse (12:4), Word 5 - Quranic Grammar

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The fifth word of verse (12:4) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A vocative particle, noun and possessive pronoun. The noun is masculine singular and is in the nominative case (مرفوع). The noun's triliteral root is hamza bā wāw (أ ب و). The of the first person singular possessive pronoun has been omitted due to elision (الياء محذوفة), and is indicated by the kasrah.

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph)


(12:4:5)
yāabati
"O my father!
VOC – prefixed vocative particle ya
N – nominative masculine singular noun
PRON – 1st person singular possessive pronoun
أداة نداء
اسم مرفوع والياء المحذوفة ضمير متصل في محل جر بالاضافة

Verse (12:4)

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

Sahih International: [Of these stories mention] when Joseph said to his father, "O my father, indeed I have seen [in a dream] eleven stars and the sun and the moon; I saw them prostrating to me."

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