The Jews say, "The Christians have nothing [true] to stand on," and the Christians say, "The Jews have nothing to stand on," although they [both] recite the Scripture. Thus do those who know not [i.e., the polytheists] speak the same as their words. But Allāh will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that over which they used to differ.
Sahih International
وَقَالَتِ
waqālati
And said
Word breakdown
وَ
Harf · Conjunctionand
قَالَتِ
Fi'l · VerbAnd said
to say, speak, tell
1,722× in the Quran · Extremely common
Grammar rules
وَقَالَتِ (And said) 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 & Presentوَقَالَتِ (And said) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Lesson 4 · Particles