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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:82:4

كُنَّا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
كُنَّا Quranic text
Simple
كُنَّا
Without tashkeel
كنا
Normalised (searchable)
كنا

Position

Computed
Verse
12:82
Word in verse
4
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:82:4

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
we were
Transliteration
kunnā
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُstem · V · ك و ن
  2. نَّاsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 5 editions

These translations render verse 12:82 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

“Ask the town where we were, and the caravan in which we came. We are being truthful.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Ask the township where we were, and the caravan with which we travelled hither. Lo! we speak the truth
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Enquire for thyself in the city where we have been, and of the caravan with which we have arrived; and we are surely speakers of the truth
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Ask then in the city where we were, and of the caravan in which we approached it, for, verily, we tell the truth
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain
and ask the town which We were in it and the caravan which We turned toward in it and indeed we truthfuls

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.

Translation · QuranBench (generated) — not a human translationCC BY-SA 4.0How this was produced

Same form · 62 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُنَّا appears 62 times in the corpus.

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Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ك و ن occurs 1390 times across 121 distinct forms.

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