Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

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Al-Anbya · 21:70

And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the greatest losers.

Sahih International

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وَأَرَادُوا۟

wa-arādū

And they intended

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

أرادُ

Fi'l · Verb

And they intended

Rootرودrwd

to seek, to go gently, slowly

148× in the Quran · Common

LemmaأَرَادَVerb (form IV) - to intend, to desire, to want, to wish

وا

Ism · Personal pronoun

them/their

Past tense verb

وَأَرَادُوا۟ (And they intended) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

Verb form IV — causative

وَأَرَادُوا۟ (And they intended) uses form IV (أَفْعَلَ) — the أ at the start makes it causative ("to make someone do something").

We translate it as "to make [someone] do" or "to cause [action]".

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَأَرَادُوا۟ (And they intended) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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