The 21st word of verse (16:75) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The form VIII imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is sīn wāw yā (س و ي). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (16) sūrat l-naḥl (The Bees) (16:75:21) yastawūna they be equal?
V – 3rd person masculine plural (form VIII) imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (16:75)

The analysis above refers to the 75th verse of chapter 16 (sūrat l-naḥl):

Sahih International: Allah presents an example: a slave [who is] owned and unable to do a thing and he to whom We have provided from Us good provision, so he spends from it secretly and publicly. Can they be equal? Praise to Allah ! But most of them do not know.

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 sīn wāw yā

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