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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 39:56:12

كُنتُ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
39:56
Word in verse
12
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:39:56:12

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
I was
Transliteration
kuntu
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 1number: singularverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. كُنstem · V · ك و ن
  2. تُsuffix · PRON

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In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 39:56 — 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 →

So that a soul may not say, “How sorry I am, for having neglected my duty to God, and for having been of the scoffers.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Lest any soul should say: Alas, my grief that I was unmindful of Allah, and I was indeed among the scoffers
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
So that a soul say, "Oh misery! for my failures in duty towards God! and verily I was of those who scoffed
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Lest a soul should say, 'O my sighing! for what I have neglected towards God! for, verily, I was amongst those who did jest
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 15 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form كُنتُ appears 15 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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