Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

Al-Qasas · 28:42

And We caused to overtake them in this world a curse, and on the Day of Resurrection they will be of the despised.

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وَأَتْبَعْنَـٰهُمْ

wa-atbaʿnāhum

And We caused to follow them

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

أتْبعْ

Fi'l · Verb

And We caused to follow them

RootتبعtbE

to follow

172× in the Quran · Common

LemmaأَتْبَعَVerb (form IV) - to follow

Ism · Personal pronoun

us/our

هُمْ

Ism · Personal pronoun

them/their

Past tense verb

وَأَتْبَعْنَـٰهُمْ (And We caused to follow them) 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

وَأَتْبَعْنَـٰهُمْ (And We caused to follow them) 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)

وَأَتْبَعْنَـٰهُمْ (And We caused to follow them) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

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