أَنَّ
Anna: that
The 30th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
أَنَّ (anna) means "that". It appears 362 times in the Quran, making it the 30th most common word: about 0.47% of all the words you read.
#30most common word
362times in the Quran
0.47%of all the words
319ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
أَنَّا صَبَبْنَا ٱلْمَآءَ صَبًّا
Abasa 80:25 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:25.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways أَنَّ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- أَنَّ99×
- وَأَنَّ43×
- أَنَّهُمْ33×
- بِأَنَّهُمْ24×
- أَنَّهُۥ17×
Small words like this are among the most frequent in the Quran. The count includes every time it appears, including with "and" or "so" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.