The fourth word of verse (19:14) is an imperfect verb (فعل مضارع). The verb is third person masculine singular and is in the jussive mood (مجزوم). The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (يكن) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها).

Chapter (19) sūrat maryam (Mary) (19:14:4) yakun he was
V – 3rd person masculine singular imperfect verb, jussive mood	فعل مضارع مجزوم

Verse (19:14)

The analysis above refers to the fourteenth verse of chapter 19 (sūrat maryam):

Sahih International: And dutiful to his parents, and he was not a disobedient tyrant.

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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