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Al-Isra · 17:4

And We conveyed to the Children of Israel in the Scripture that, "You will surely cause corruption on the earth twice, and you will surely reach [a degree of] great haughtiness."

Sahih International

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وَقَضَيْنَآ

waqaḍaynā

And We decreed

Word breakdown

و

Harf · Conjunction

and

قضيْ

Fi'l · Verb

And We decreed

RootقضيqDy

to decree, judge, complete, fulfill

63× in the Quran · Occasional

LemmaقَضَىٰٓVerb (form I) - to decree, to decide, to judge

نا

Ism · Personal pronoun

us/our

Grammar rules

Past tense verb

وَقَضَيْنَآ (And We decreed) 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
Conjunction وَ (and)

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

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

Lesson 4 · Particles