فَذُوقُوا۟ فَلَن نَّزِيدَكُمْ إِلَّا عَذَابًا
Sentence structure
The first clause is a plural command. The second uses لَن for emphatic future negation, while إِلَّا creates restriction: nothing will be increased for them except punishment.
فَذُوقُوا۟ — so taste
Grammar: فَـ marks the consequence. ذُوقُوا۟ is a second-person masculine plural imperative, built on deletion of the indicative “نَ”. Its final “و” is wāw al-jamāʿah: an attached subject pronoun. The written “ا” after it is alif al-fāriqah and is not pronounced.
فَلَن — then never
Grammar: فَـ links the result. لَن negates the future and makes the following imperfect verb subjunctive.
نَّزِيدَكُمْ — We will increase you
Grammar: A first-person plural imperfect verb in the subjunctive mood with visible fatḥah; its subject is the understood نَحْنُ, and كُمْ is its first object.
إِلَّا — except
Grammar: A particle of exception used here with the negation to create restriction حصر.
عَذَابًا — punishment
Grammar: An indefinite accusative masculine noun and the second object of نَّزِيدَكُمْ.