The seventh word of verse (17:25) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is second person masculine plural and is in the subjunctive mood (منصوب). 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). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey) (17:25:7) takūnū you are
V – 2nd person masculine plural imperfect verb, subjunctive mood PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع منصوب والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (17:25)

The analysis above refers to the 25th verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā):

Sahih International: Your Lord is most knowing of what is within yourselves. If you should be righteous [in intention] - then indeed He is ever, to the often returning [to Him], Forgiving.

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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