وَكُنَّا

Uthmani (as written)

وَكُنَّا Quranic text

Simple

وَكُنَّا

Without tashkeel

وكنا

Normalised (searchable)

وكنا

Surah

21 · The Prophets

Verse

21:51

Word in verse

7

Token id

quran:tanzil-uthmani:21:51:7

Gloss

and We were

Transliteration

wakunnā

Root

ك و نk-w-n

Lemma

كانَ

Part of speech

Verb (V)

Features

tense: PERFperson: 1number: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

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.

These translations render verse 21:51 — 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 →

This exact written form وَكُنَّا appears 16 times in the corpus.

• وَكُنَّا7:173:8
• وَكُنَّا21:78:12
• وَكُنَّا21:79:13
• وَكُنَّا21:81:11
• وَكُنَّا21:82:10
• وَكُنَّا23:82:4
• وَكُنَّا23:106:6
• وَكُنَّا27:42:13
• وَكُنَّا28:58:15
• وَكُنَّا37:16:3
• وَكُنَّا37:53:3
• وَكُنَّا50:3:3

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

• كَانُوا۟2:10:11
• كَانُوا۟2:16:10
• كُنتُمْ2:23:2
• كُنتُمْ2:23:19
• وَكُنتُمْ2:28:4
• كُنتُمْ2:31:14
• كُنتُمْ2:33:21
• وَكَانَ2:34:11
• فَتَكُونَا2:35:16
• كَانَا2:36:6
• تَكُونُوٓا۟2:41:8
• كَانُوٓا۟2:57:16

No published investigation cites this word yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.