The third word of verse (12:8) is divided into 2 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix and proper noun. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The proper noun is masculine and is in the nominative case (مرفوع).

Chapter (12) sūrat yūsuf (Joseph) (12:8:3) layūsufu "Surely Yusuf
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām PN – nominative masculine proper noun → Yusuf	اللام لام التوكيد اسم علم مرفوع

Verse (12:8)

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

Sahih International: When they said, "Joseph and his brother are more beloved to our father than we, while we are a clan. Indeed, our father is in clear error.

See Also

• English Translations
• Part-of-speech Tags
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Yusuf - referred to by the proper noun

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