قَالُوا۟ تِلْكَ إِذًا كَرَّةٌ خَاسِرَةٌ
Ayah summary
Mockingly, they said that such a return would mean a great loss for them.
Sentence structure
قَالُوا۟ introduces their statement. تِلْكَ is the subject and كَرَّةٌ its predicate; إِذًا is a non-governing response particle meaning “then,” and خَاسِرَةٌ is an adjective of كَرَّةٌ.
قَالُوا۟ — they said
Grammar: A third-person masculine plural perfect verb; attached wāw is its subject.
تِلْكَ — that
Grammar: A feminine singular demonstrative pronoun, indeclinable in the nominative position as subject.
إِذًۭا — then
Grammar: A response particle meaning “then”; it has no syntactic governing effect here.
كَرَّةٌ — a return
Grammar: An indefinite feminine singular nominative noun and the predicate of تِلْكَ.
خَاسِرَةٌۭ — ruinous
Grammar: An indefinite feminine singular nominative active participle functioning as adjective of كَرَّةٌ.