The second word of verse (24:15) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A verb, subject pronoun and object pronoun. The form V imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is second person masculine plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is lām qāf yā (ل ق ي). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun. The attached object pronoun is third person masculine singular.

Chapter (24) sūrat l-nūr (The Light) (24:15:2) talaqqawnahu you received it
V – 2nd person masculine plural (form V) imperfect verb PRON – subject pronoun PRON – 3rd person masculine singular object pronoun	فعل مضارع والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل والهاء ضمير متصل في محل نصب مفعول به

Verse (24:15)

The analysis above refers to the fifteenth verse of chapter 24 (sūrat l-nūr):

Sahih International: When you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge and thought it was insignificant while it was, in the sight of Allah , tremendous.

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 lām qāf yā

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Abdul Rahman 6th February, 2010 Note that one "ta" has been omitted from this imperfect verb for ease of articulation. Interestingly, all seven English translators have translated this verb and the subsequent imperfect verbs in this verse into the English past tense.

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