The fifth word of verse (21:8) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is hamza kāf lām (أ ك ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (21) sūrat l-anbiyāa (The Prophets) (21:8:5) yakulūna eating
V – 3rd person masculine plural imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (21:8)

The analysis above refers to the eighth verse of chapter 21 (sūrat l-anbiyāa):

Sahih International: And We did not make the prophets forms not eating food, nor were they immortal [on earth].

See Also

• English Translations
• Verbs, Subjects and Objects
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root hamza kāf lām

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