The eighth word of verse (28:47) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed conjunction fa is usually translated as "and". The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is third person masculine plural and is in the subjunctive mood (منصوب). The verb's triliteral root is qāf wāw lām (ق و ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (28) sūrat l-qaṣaṣ (The Stories) (28:47:8) fayaqūlū and they would say,
CONJ – prefixed conjunction fa (and) V – 3rd person masculine plural imperfect verb, subjunctive mood PRON – subject pronoun	الفاء عاطفة فعل مضارع منصوب والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (28:47)

The analysis above refers to the 47th verse of chapter 28 (sūrat l-qaṣaṣ):

Sahih International: And if not that a disaster should strike them for what their hands put forth [of sins] and they would say, "Our Lord, why did You not send us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses and been among the believers?"...

See Also

• English Translations
• The Subjunctive and Jussive Moods
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root qāf wāw lām

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