The third word of verse (18:79) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A resumption particle and verb. The connective particle fa is usually translated as "then" or "so" and is used to indicate a sequence of events. The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person feminine singular. The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (كانت) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها).

Chapter (18) sūrat l-kahf (The Cave) (18:79:3) fakānat it was
REM – prefixed resumption particle V – 3rd person feminine singular perfect verb	الفاء استئنافية فعل ماض

Verse (18:79)

The analysis above refers to the 79th verse of chapter 18 (sūrat l-kahf):

Sahih International: As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force.

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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