The sixteenth word of verse (7:149) is divided into 3 morphological segments. An emphatic prefix, verb and emphatic suffix. The prefixed particle lām is usually translated as "surely" or "indeed" and is used to add emphasis. The imperfect verb (فعل مضارع) is first person plural and is in the indicative mood (مرفوع). The verb's triliteral root is kāf wāw nūn (ك و ن). The verb (نكون) belongs to a special group of words known as kāna and her sisters (كان واخواتها). The suffixed emphatic particle is known as the nūn of emphasis (نون التوكيد).

Chapter (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights) (7:149:16) lanakūnanna we will surely be
EMPH – emphatic prefix lām V – 1st person plural imperfect verb EMPH – emphatic suffix nūn	اللام لام التوكيد فعل مضارع والنون للتوكيد

Verse (7:149)

The analysis above refers to the 149th verse of chapter 7 (sūrat l-aʿrāf):

Sahih International: And when regret overcame them and they saw that they had gone astray, they said, "If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will surely be among the losers."

See Also

• English Translations
• The Verb kāna (كان واخواتها)
• Dependency Graph - visual syntax (i'rāb) for this verse
• Concordance - list occurances of this word
• Quran Dictionary - the root kāf wāw nūn

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FS 12th July, 2011 The laam labelled as emphatic prefix laam, to me seems not to emphasise rather it is the result of the previous condition (la in) 'If our Lord does not...[then] we will...' Is there a way we can label it as ' harf jawab ash- Shart' [resultative particle]? I know syntactically the whole sentence/clause is also 'Jawab' but this letter laam is more than emphatic it presents the result. wallahu a'alam

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