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Al-Isra · 17:2

And We gave Moses the Scripture and made it a guidance for the Children of Israel that you not take other than Me as Disposer of affairs,

Sahih International

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وَءَاتَيْنَا

waātaynā

And We gave

Word breakdown

و

Harf · Conjunction

and

ءاتيْ

Fi'l · Verb

And We gave

RootاتيAty

to come, bring, give

549× in the Quran · Very common

LemmaآتَىVerb (form IV) - to give

نا

Ism · Personal pronoun

us/our

Grammar rules

Past tense verb

وَءَاتَيْنَا (And We gave) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Lesson 8 · Verbs — Past & Present
Verb form IV — causative

وَءَاتَيْنَا (And We gave) 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]".

Lesson 12 · Verb Families II–IV
Conjunction وَ (and)

وَءَاتَيْنَا (And We gave) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.

Lesson 4 · Particles