Arabic vocabulary
تَخَلَّفْتُI lagged behind
How to say “I lagged behind” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَتَخَلَّفْتُ فَنَزَلَ يَحْجُنُهُ بِمِحْجَنِهِ،
So I lagged behind, and he dismounted and struck it with his staff.
فَتَخَلَّفْتُ — so I lagged behind. The prefix fa- marks the next event ('and so'), and the verb carries a -tu ending fixing the doer as 'I'. The whole word means 'so I lagged behind', with the subject living inside the verb.
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