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تَخَلَّفْتُ I lagged behind in Arabic

تَخَلَّفْتُ is how you say “I lagged behind” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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