Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

An-Nahl · 16:87

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

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وَأَلْقَوْا۟

wa-alqaw

And they (will) offer

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

ألْق

Fi'l · Verb

And they (will) offer

Rootلقيlqy

to meet, encounter, to cast or throw

146× in the Quran · Common

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

وْا

Ism · Personal pronoun

them/their

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.