How to use beyond?
Hi
Can someone explain how to use beyond? give some examples?
thanks in advance
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Hi Hasan, basically "beyond" means وراء.
For instance, you can say:
"I saw a tower beyond the trees"
By meaning:
"رأيت برج وراء الأشجار"
It has not only a "spacial" meaning (es. beyond that tree, beyond this house, beyond those buildings...) but also a "temporal" meaning:
"You can live here another year but beyond that time you have to get a job"
Furthermore, I think "beyond" is also used as a synonym of "except" with a following present continuous, as in:
"Beyond sleeping and eating I don't know what are his skills"
Maybe here are some mistakes, but basically it works like this. I am sure that a native speaker could add other ways to use it!
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It can have several uses/meanings.
1)You can use it in a literal, physical sense to talk about the position of things in the world, meaning 'past' e.g. Beyond the hills was the sea OR the wood was beyond the village. These both mean that if you were walking you would get to the hills/the village first and then if you kept walking in the same direction you would reach the sea/the wood.
2)You can use it in a figurative sense to mean 'apart from' something. e.g. About 30 years ago, someone might have said 'I can see how mobile phones would be useful for contacting someone if you're not at home, but beyond that, I don't see what we could use them for.' OR 'I don't do much at the weekend beyond eating and sleeping'.
3) If you don't understand something you can also say 'that's beyond me'.
I'm sure there are more figurative uses of this word, but I hope these examples help you somewhat.
Ellie.
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