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zurückgehen

to walk back, to go back

verb tsoo-RUEK-gay-en Rare
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

to decrease, to go back in time

Usage Note

zurückgehen in navigation means to retrace your steps on foot. It also has a second common sense — prices or numbers gehen zurück (decrease) — that is frequent in news language, so learners should recognise both uses.

Examples

"Wir gingen denselben Weg zurück, den wir gekommen waren."

Natural Translation

We walked back the same way we had come.

Literal Translation

We went the same path back that we come had.

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