Arabic vocabulary

خَلْفِيbehind me in Arabic

خَلْفِي is how you say “behind me” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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 →

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