Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

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Al-Qasas · 28:11

And she said to his sister, "Follow him"; so she watched him from a distance while they perceived not.

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وَقَالَتْ

waqālat

And she said

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

قالتْ

Fi'l · Verb

And she said

Rootقولqwl

to say, speak, tell

1,722× in the Quran · Extremely common

LemmaقَالَVerb (form I) - to say

Past tense verb

وَقَالَتْ (And she said) 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)

وَقَالَتْ (And she said) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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