Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

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Al-Kahf · 18:34

And he had fruit, so he said to his companion while he was conversing with him, "I am greater than you in wealth and mightier in [numbers of] men."

Sahih International

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وَكَانَ

wakāna

And was

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

كان

Fi'l · Verb

And was

Rootكونkwn

to be, exist, happen

1,390× in the Quran · Extremely common

LemmaكَانَVerb (form I) - to be

Past tense verb

وَكَانَ (And was) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَكَانَ (And was) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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