The third word of verse (18:59) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A verb, subject pronoun and object pronoun. The form IV perfect verb (فعل ماض) is first person plural. The verb's triliteral root is hā lām kāf (ه ل ك). The suffix (نا) is an attached subject pronoun. The attached object pronoun is third person masculine plural.

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) (18:59:3) ahlaknāhum We destroyed them
V – 1st person plural (form IV) perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun PRON – 3rd person masculine plural object pronoun	فعل ماض و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل و«هم» ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (18:59)

The analysis above refers to the 59th verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf):

Sahih International: And those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time.

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 hā lām kāf

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