Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

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Al-Mu'minun · 23:18

And We have sent down rain from the sky in a measured amount and settled it in the earth. And indeed, We are Able to take it away.

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وَأَنزَلْنَا

wa-anzalnā

And We send down

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

أنزلْ

Fi'l · Verb

And We send down

Rootنزلnzl

to come down, descend, send down, reveal

293× in the Quran · Common

LemmaأَنزَلَVerb (form IV) - to send down, to reveal

نا

Ism · Personal pronoun

us/our

Past tense verb

وَأَنزَلْنَا (And We send down) 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

وَأَنزَلْنَا (And We send down) 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)

وَأَنزَلْنَا (And We send down) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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