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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 48:12:18

وَكُنتُمْ

Forms

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

Position

Computed
Verse
48:12
Word in verse
18
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:48:12:18

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Transliteration
wakuntum
Lemma
كانَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 2gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1family: كَان

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · CONJ
  2. كُنstem · V · ك و ن
  3. تُمْsuffix · 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 48:12 — 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 →

But you thought that the Messenger and the believers will never return to their families, and this seemed fine to your hearts; and you harbored evil thoughts, and were uncivilized people
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Nay, but ye deemed that the messenger and the believers would never return to their own folk, and that was made fairseeming in your hearts, and ye did think an evil thought, and ye were worthless folk
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
But ye thought that the Apostle and the faithful could never more come back to their families; and your hearts were pleased at this; and ye thought an evil thought of this expedition, and ye became an undone people
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
Nay, ye thought that the Apostle and the believers would not ever return again to their families; that was made seemly in your hearts! and ye thought evil thoughts, and ye were a corrupt people
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 7 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَكُنتُمْ appears 7 times in the corpus.

Root ك و ن · 1390 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

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

See the full root page for ك و ن

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