خَلْفِيbehind me

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا كَانَ الشِّتَاءُ جَاءَ حَتَّى قَعَدَ خَلْفِي وَأَنَا أُصَلِّي،

  When winter came, he would come until he sat behind me while I prayed.

  خِلْفَيْ — behind me. A place-word, 'behind', with a first-person -i ('me') attached to its end, making one word that means 'behind me'. Words like this take an attached pronoun exactly where English would use a separate object after the preposition. The whole thing tells you where the sitting happened, relative to the speaker.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →