Translation
to go back, to return
Examples
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I must go back home.
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She went back to the same place.
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We will go back tomorrow morning.
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He went back into the room without a word.
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Go back to your mother!
and are not the same journey. is going back, away from where you now stand; is coming back, towards the speaker or towards home. The - prefix is doing exactly what it does in English, and it works on any verb of motion or action: i, i, i. Note with the accusative of direction rather than a preposition, which is the idiomatic way to say homewards and much neater than .
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