The eighteenth word of verse (5:77) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The form IV perfect verb (فعل ماض) is third person masculine plural. The verb's triliteral root is ḍād lām lām (ض ل ل). The suffix (الواو) is an attached subject pronoun.

Chapter (5) sūrat l-māidah (The Table spread with Food) (5:77:18) wa-aḍallū and they misled
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and) V – 3rd person masculine plural (form IV) perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	الواو عاطفة فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل

Verse (5:77)

The analysis above refers to the 77th verse of chapter 5 (sūrat l-māidah):

Sahih International: Say, "O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way."

See Also

• English Translations
• Verb Forms in Quranic Grammar
• Dependency Graph - visual syntax (i'rāb) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root ḍād lām lām

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