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وَرَاء behind in Arabic

وَرَاء is how you say “behind” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وتارَة يذكر الطّلب فَيتَأَخَّر وَرَاءه

And at times, he would remember the pursuit, so he fell behind him.

وَرَاءَهُ behind him

A place-adverb 'behind' with '-hu' (him) attached, frozen in the accusative — 'behind him'. The accusative marks position, balancing the earlier 'ahead of him'.

From The Night of the Migration

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فاجعل لنفسك من الفكر مرآة ترى بها ما وراء الحوادث،

So make for yourself a mirror of thought through which you see what lies beyond events,

وَرَاءَ beyond

A space word meaning 'beyond' that, like other such words, governs the noun after it into the possessive case while staying in the object form itself. It marks where the deeper things lie relative to surface events.

From Think Before You Act

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