Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

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Al-Anbya · 21:93

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

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وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟

wataqaṭṭaʿū

But they cut off

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

تقطعُ

Fi'l · Verb

But they cut off

RootقطعqTE

to cut, cut off, separate, turn aside

36× in the Quran · Occasional

LemmaتَّقَطَّعَVerb (form V) - to cut, to severe

وا

Ism · Personal pronoun

them/their

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.