يَتَخَلَّفُواremain behind

Example sentences

• ولكن لا أجد سعة فأحملهم ولا يجدون سعة عليهم أن يتخلفوا عني،

  but I do not find the means to provide mounts for them, nor do they find the means to go out on their own,

  يَتَخَلَّفُوا — stay behind. A present-tense verb with the 'they' subject built in, sitting in the subjunctive ending required by the preceding 'that', so it reads as 'to stay behind'. The plural is inside the form; the subjunctive shape marks it as governed content, the thing felt hard.

  From: Paradise for Those Who Strive →