The seventh word of verse (46:6) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (كان) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (46) sūrat l-aḥqāf (The Curved Sand-hills) (46:6:7) wakānū and they will be
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (46:6)

The analysis above refers to the sixth verse of chapter 46 (sūrat l-aḥqāf):

Sahih International: And when the people are gathered [that Day], they [who were invoked] will be enemies to them, and they will be deniers of their worship.

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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