Hafiz soon
Al-Kahf · 18:68

And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge?"

Sahih International

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وَكَيْفَ

wakayfa

And how can

Word breakdown

و

Harf · Conjunction

and

كيْف

Harf · Interrogative particle

how?

Rootكيفkyf

how

83× in the Quran · Occasional

LemmaكَيْفNominal (1) Interogative particle

Grammar rules

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَكَيْفَ (And how can) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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

Lesson 4 · Particles
Question marker

وَكَيْفَ (And how can) marks a question — it turns the sentence into a question.

We rearrange the English into question form.

Lesson 17 · Questions & Prohibition