An-Nahl
16:87

An-Nahl · Ayah 87

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Translation

And they (will) offer

Word Breakdown

وَأَلْقَوْا۟

And they (will) offer

Word Breakdown

وHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

ألْقFi'l · Verb
3rd personMasculinePluralPastForm ((IV))
Rootلقي
Very common

to meet, encounter, to cast or throw

Lemmaأَلْقَىٰٓ

Verb (form IV) - to cast, to throw, to meet, to offer

وْاIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (3rd person masculine plural)

them/their

3rd personMasculinePlural

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb
وَأَلْقَوْا۟ (And they (will) offer) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.
We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.
Verb form IV — causative
وَأَلْقَوْا۟ (And they (will) offer) uses form IV (أَفْعَلَ) — the أ at the start makes it causative ("to make someone do something").
We translate it as "to make [someone] do" or "to cause [action]".
Conjunction وَ (and)
وَأَلْقَوْا۟ (And they (will) offer) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

Sahih International

And they will impart to Allāh that Day [their] submission, and lost from them is what they used to invent.

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