The tenth word of verse (25:40) 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 jussive mood (مجزوم). The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (يكون) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (25) sūrat l-fur'qān (The Criterion) (25:40:10) yakūnū they [were]
V – 3rd person masculine plural imperfect verb, jussive mood PRON – subject pronoun	فعل مضارع مجزوم والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «يكون»

Verse (25:40)

The analysis above refers to the 40th verse of chapter 25 (sūrat l-fur'qān):

Sahih International: And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.

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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