Arabic vocabulary
How to say “future” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ
And what remained.
تَأَخَّرَ — it remained. A finished-action verb on a reflexive-type pattern meaning 'lagged / came later', whose subject is the relative word before it, so together 'what came later'. The 'it' is built in. It mirrors the earlier 'came before', pairing past and future sins as both forgiven.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →وفي رواية فيأتوني فيقولون يا محمد أنت رسول الله وخاتم الأنبياء، وقد غفر لك ما تقدم من ذنبك وما تأخر،
In one narration they come to me and say, "O Muhammad, you are the Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets, and your past and future sins have been forgiven."
تَأَخَّرَ — came after. A past verb meaning 'came after', with a built-in 'it' subject pointing back to the second 'what'; it names the later part of the forgiven sins, mirroring the earlier 'preceded'. Subject inside the verb.
From: The Prophet's Intercession →OpenArabic teaches words like تَأَخَّرَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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