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Al-A'raf · Ayah 168

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Translation

And We divided them

Word Breakdown

وَقَطَّعْنَـٰهُمْ

And We divided them

Word Breakdown

وَHarf · Resumption particle

Resumptive particle: resumes speech after parenthetical

and

L4 Particles

قَطَّعْFi'l · Verb

1st personPluralPastForm ((II))

Rootقطع

★★★★Common

to cut, cut off, separate, turn aside

Lemmaقَطَّعَ

Verb (form II) - to cut, to divide

L1 Arabic Word TypesL8 Verbs — Past & PresentL12 Verb Families II–IV

نَٰIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (1st person plural)

us/our

1st personPlural

L3 Pronouns & Pointing

هُمْIsm · Personal pronoun

Attached pronoun: functions as object, possessor, or complement (3rd person masculine plural)

them/their

3rd personMasculinePlural

L3 Pronouns & Pointing

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Grammar Rules

Past tense verb

وَقَطَّعْنَـٰهُمْ (And We divided them) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

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

L8 Verbs — Past & Present

Verb form II — intensified

وَقَطَّعْنَـٰهُمْ (And We divided them) uses form II (فَعَّلَ) — the middle letter is doubled, which makes the meaning stronger or causative.

The meaning is more intense than the basic form, or means "to make someone do [action]".

L12 Verb Families II–IV

Sahih International

And We divided them throughout the earth into nations. Of them some were righteous, and of them some were otherwise. And We tested them with good [times] and bad that perhaps they would return [to obedience].

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