The seventeenth word of verse (7:51) is divided into 2 morphological segments. A verb and subject pronoun. 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 (7) sūrat l-aʿrāf (The Heights) (7:51:17) kānū (as) they used to
V – 3rd person masculine plural perfect verb PRON – subject pronoun	فعل ماض والواو ضمير متصل في محل رفع اسم «كان»

Verse (7:51)

The analysis above refers to the 51st verse of chapter 7 (sūrat l-aʿrāf):

Sahih International: Who took their religion as distraction and amusement and whom the worldly life deluded." So today We will forget them just as they forgot the meeting of this Day of theirs and for having rejected Our verses.

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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