go back to

retourner à, revenir à

Revenir à un lieu, une personne, une activité ou une situation antérieure.

En anglais simple : To return to a place, person, activity, or earlier situation.

• We must go back to the hotel.
• She went back to her hometown last year.
• Will you go back to teaching after the summer?

Comment l'utiliser : go back to someone/something (I do not want to go back to my old job.); go back to doing something (He went back to reading after the call.)

Synonymes : return to

Expressions courantes : go back to bed, go back to school

remonter à, dater de

Avoir commencé ou existé pour la première fois à une époque précise du passé.

En anglais simple : To have begun or first existed at a particular time in the past.

• The custom goes back to ancient times.
• Their dispute goes back to the last election.
• These village celebrations go back to the eighteenth century.

Comment l'utiliser : go back to a time (This tradition goes back to the Middle Ages.)

Synonymes : date from, originate in

Expressions courantes : go back to antiquity, go back to childhood

se connaître depuis

Se connaître depuis une époque précise du passé.

En anglais simple : If people do this, they have known each other since a particular time in the past.

• Ben and I go back to college.
• Those two go back to their first job.
• Do you and Sara go back to primary school?

Comment l'utiliser : someone and someone go back to a time (Maya and I go back to our school days.)

Synonymes : know each other since

Expressions courantes : go back to school, go back to college