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Yusuf 12:91

قَالُواْ تَٱللَّهِ لَقَدۡ ءَاثَرَكَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيۡنَا وَإِن كُنَّا لَخَٰطِـِٔينَ

They admitted, “By Allah! Allah has truly preferred you over us, and we have surely been sinful.”

Word by word

قَالُواْ
qālū
They said
Vocabulary
Root: قول
تَٱللَّهِ
tal-lahi
By Allah
Vocabulary
Root: اله
لَقَدۡ
laqad
certainly
Vocabulary
ءَاثَرَكَ
ātharaka
Allah has preferred you
Vocabulary
Root: اثر
ٱللَّهُ
l-lahu
Allah has preferred you
Vocabulary
Root: اله
عَلَيۡنَا
ʿalaynā
over us
Vocabulary
وَإِن
wa-in
and indeed
Vocabulary
كُنَّا
kunnā
we have been
Vocabulary
Root: كون
لَخَٰطِـِٔينَ
lakhāṭiīna
sinners
Vocabulary
Root: خطا

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.