Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

An-Naml · 27:67

And those who disbelieve say, "When we have become dust as well as our forefathers, will we indeed be brought out [of the graves]?

Sahih International

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وَقَالَ

waqāla

And say

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

قال

Fi'l · Verb

And say

Rootقولqwl

to say, speak, tell

1,722× in the Quran · Extremely common

LemmaقَالَVerb (form I) - to say

Past tense verb

وَقَالَ (And say) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَقَالَ (And say) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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