Al-Fatiha · 1:6
اِهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَق۪يمَۙ
Guide us to the straight path
اِهْدِنَا
ihdinā
The coloured letters are the root — the meaning core. The rest are prefixes, vowels and the pattern. Learn to spot them and you can find the root in a word you've never seen.
- Meaning
- Guide us
- Part of speech
- Verb (فعل) + attached pronoun
- Word parts
- اهْدِ (imperative verb) + نَا (us)
- Root
- ه د ي
- Root meaning
- The root هدي (hdy) primarily means to guide or lead someone on the right path, often with the implication of showing the way or directing.
- Frequency
- Appears in 268 verses of the Qur'an
- Dictionary form
- هَدَى
- Verb form
- Form I (فَعَلَ)
- Tense
- Imperative (amr)
- Voice
- Active
- Mood
- Command (mabnī)
- Person
- 2nd person singular (addressing Allah)
- Role
- Command verb; ‘us’ (نا) is the object
- Case
- Command (mabnī)
- Grammar
- Imperative ‘guide’; the subject ‘You (Allah)’ is implicit, and نا (us) is the object.
Conjugation
In the present, the prefix carries the subject (I / we / you / he) — no separate pronoun.