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Al-Baqarah · Ayah 35
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Translation
And We said
Word Breakdown
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Grammar Rules
Past tense verb
وَقُلْنَا (And We said) 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)
وَقُلْنَا (And We said) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".
We add "and" to connect this to what came before.
Sahih International
And We said, "O Adam, dwell, you and your wife, in Paradise and eat therefrom in [ease and] abundance from wherever you will. But do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."
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