"هَل جَدَّتَك خَلْفَك يا سيث؟"

Translation: Is your grandmother behind you, Seth?

[Christoph55835]

Should be جَدَّتُكَ

[lukas.tu]

But the grammar taught in the this course shows differently. like this one

[sartma]

Hovering over خلفك doesn't show the meaning...

[TheQaswarah]

Should accept Granny and Grandma as synonyms to Grandmother!!

[Susan569895]

And Gran

[mehtap0800]

Does this sentence only refer to the physical/spatial realm, or can "behind" in Arabic also refer to one supporting another as in English? "I'm behind you all the way."

[FidelRamone88]

(ghalfaka) meaning is missing. please fix it. thanks

[tsuj1g1r1]

It's khalfaka though. And for what it's worth, it means "behind you (male, singular)."

[Yuri636Sam]

Behind you is خلفك
خلف is back or behind
And the ك is referring to you like possession or prepositioning like "your" behind or behind "you"

[wendya1]

Haven't they translated it as in the background in other sentences?

[tsuj1g1r1]

Well, the English word "background" has "back" in it as well.

خَلْفِـيَّة = background

خَلْفَ = behind

The suffx "-iyy" forms words meaning "of or pertaining to":

• مصر = Egypt, مصري = Egyptian

• شيعة = faction, شيعي = Shiite (he who attributes himself to the faction)

• طب = medicine, طبي = medical

So, by the same logic, خلفية is that which forms the back of something. You can use it as an adjective:

أبواب خلفية = Backdoors