Translation
behind, at the back of
Examples
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The garden is behind the house.
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He hid behind the door.
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The other guests walked behind us.
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The sun disappeared behind the clouds.
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She looked backwards and cried out.
is strictly about place: behind, at the back of. Post can do place as well, but its main job is time, post , so careful writers use when they mean physical position and leave post for afterwards. Add - for motion and you get en, backwards, which is the accusative of direction sitting on an adverb. a describes the rear one, and o is the back part of a thing.
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