تَخَلَّفَ fall behind in Arabic
تَخَلَّفَ is how you say “fall behind” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
إِنَّكَ مَتَىٰ مَا يَرَاكَ الْنَّاسُ قَدْ تَخَلَّفْتَ
Indeed, whenever people see you, they say that you have fallen behind.
تَخَلَّفْتَ you fell behind
A past verb with 'you' in its -ta ending, in a reflexive-style pattern meaning to stay back or lag. The suffix names the doer, so 'you fell behind' rides on one word.
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وَأَنْتَ سَيِّدُ أَهْلِ الْوَادِيِ تَخَلَّفُوا مَعَكَ،
And you are the leader of the people of the valley; they lagged behind with you.
تَخَلَّفُوا they lagged behind
A past verb whose -u ending carries a 'they' subject — the plural rides in the verb's tail. It means they all stayed back, a single word doing the work of pronoun plus verb.