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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 12:91:8

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
12:91
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:12:91:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
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

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 12:91 — 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 →

They said, “By God, God has preferred you over us. We were definitely in the wrong.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
They said: By Allah, verily Allah hath preferred thee above us, and we were indeed sinful
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
They said, "By God! now hath God chosen thee above us, and we have indeed been sinners
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
They said, 'By God! God has chosen thee over us; and we indeed were sinners
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

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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