The eighth word of verse (18:74) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do". The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is second person masculine singular. The verb's triliteral root is qāf tā lām (ق ت ل). The suffix (التاء) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) (18:74:8) aqatalta "Have you killed
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif V – 2nd person masculine singular perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الهمزة همزة استفهام فعل ماض والتاء ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (18:74)

The analysis above refers to the 74th verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf):

Sahih International: So they set out, until when they met a boy, al-Khidh r killed him. [Moses] said, "Have you killed a pure soul for other than [having killed] a soul? You have certainly done a deplorable thing."

See Also

• English Translations
• The Particle alif (أ)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root qāf tā lām

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