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An-Nahl 16:21

أَمۡوَٰتٌ غَيۡرُ أَحۡيَآءٖۖ وَمَا يَشۡعُرُونَ أَيَّانَ يُبۡعَثُونَ

They are dead, not alive—not even knowing when their followers will be resurrected.

Word by word

أَمۡوَٰتٌ
amwātun
(They are) dead
Vocabulary
Root: موت
غَيۡرُ
ghayru
not
Vocabulary
Root: غير
أَحۡيَآءٖۖ
aḥyāin
alive
Vocabulary
Root: حيي
وَمَا
wamā
And not
Vocabulary
يَشۡعُرُونَ
yashʿurūna
they perceive
Vocabulary
Root: شعر
أَيَّانَ
ayyāna
when
Vocabulary
يُبۡعَثُونَ
yub'ʿathūna
they will be resurrected
Vocabulary
Root: بعث

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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.