The second word of verse (37:36) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An interrogative alif, accusative particle and object pronoun. The prefixed alif is an interrogative particle used to form a question and is usually translated as "is", "are", or "do". The accusative particle belongs to a special group of words known as inna and her sisters (ان واخواتها). The attached object pronoun is first person plural.

Chapter (37) sūrat l-ṣāfāt (Those Ranges in Ranks) (37:36:2) a-innā "Are we
INTG – prefixed interrogative alif ACC – accusative particle PRON – 1st person plural object pronoun	الهمزة همزة استفهام حرف نصب و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل نصب اسم «ان»

Verse (37:36)

The analysis above refers to the 36th verse of chapter 37 (sūrat l-ṣāfāt):

Sahih International: And were saying, "Are we to leave our gods for a mad poet?"

See Also

• English Translations
• The Particle alif (أ)
• Arabic Grammar - syntactic i'rāb (إعراب) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word

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