Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

Maryam · 19:81

And they have taken besides Allāh [false] deities that they would be for them [a source of] honor.

Sahih International

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وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟

wa-ittakhadhū

And they have taken

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

اتخذُ

Fi'l · Verb

And they have taken

RootاخذAx*

to take, seize, grasp; to punish, hold accountable

273× in the Quran · Common

LemmaٱتَّخَذَVerb (form VIII) - to take

وا

Ism · Personal pronoun

them/their

Past tense verb

وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ (And they have taken) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

Verb form VIII — reflexive

وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ (And they have taken) uses form VIII (إِفْتَعَلَ) — it means doing the action for yourself or by yourself.

We translate it as "to [verb] for oneself".

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ (And they have taken) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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