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Al-Anbya · Ayah 93

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But they cut off

وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟

But they cut off

وHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

تقطعُFi'l · Verb

3rd personMasculinePluralPastForm ((V))

Rootقطع

★★★★Common

to cut, cut off, separate, turn aside

Lemmaتَّقَطَّعَ

Verb (form V) - to cut, to severe

واIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (3rd person masculine plural)

them/their

3rd personMasculinePlural

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Past tense verb

وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ (But they cut off) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

Verb form V — doing to oneself

وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ (But they cut off) uses form V (تَفَعَّلَ) — it's the reflexive of form II, meaning doing the action to yourself.

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

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ (But they cut off) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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

And [yet] they divided their affair [i.e., that of their religion] among themselves, [but] all to Us will return.

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