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An-Naml · Ayah 20

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And he inspected

وَتَفَقَّدَ

And he inspected

وHarf · Conjunction

Conjunction: connects words, phrases, or clauses

and

تفقدFi'l · Verb

3rd personMasculineSingularPastForm ((V))

Rootفقد

★★★★Rare

to miss, lose, inspect for what is missing

Lemmaتَفَقَّدَ

Verb (form V) - to inspect

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Past tense verb

وَتَفَقَّدَ (And he inspected) 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

وَتَفَقَّدَ (And he inspected) 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)

وَتَفَقَّدَ (And he inspected) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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

And he took attendance of the birds and said, "Why do I not see the hoopoe - or is he among the absent?

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