"Granica jest za wieżą."

Translation: The border is behind the tower.

[mdunn4]

Can someone explain why 'za' means behind here? I was under the impression it meant too much and 'z tyłu' meant meant. Thanks!!

[luless]

https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/za
It has several different meanings (like many short words in Polish) i.e behind, after some time, instead, while, too much.

[RadhaTereska]

can i say the border is past the tower?

[immery]

I have been informed here, that past the tower means "go this road and you will pass the tower and then there will be a border", while behind means, go this road there is a tower and in it's backyard there is a border.

Both translate to "Granica jest za wieżą."

[mattpetryk]

Why not the boundary is behind the tower?

[Jellei]

I thought that boundary cannot be a physical border, but Wiktionary proves otherwise - so added.

[AlexG71]

I translated this as 'the border is at the back of the tower', this would mean the same thing in English but is it a poor translation from Polish?

[Jellei]

Well, I think that's a bit too much of an interpretation, adds too much. "Granica jest z tyłu wieży" would be a translation of that.

[Dan_ri]

"Beyond" sounds better than "behind".

[QOtter]

I think in English you would say "past the tower" or "beyond the tower" but that would be an idiomatic translation of the Polish. Languages are complicated, sigh!

[Jellei]

Those both work :)