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Thank you for teaching me this word, pleonastic! I have been looking for it for a while :)
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"Return...back" is awkward English. It would sound better to say "Are you returning the clothes?" or "Are you giving the clothes back?"
I think it's awkward mostly because return already includes back as it is, right? Using it along with return would be redundant. (Pure curiosity question.:P)
i put ...you will return the clothes behind?....i knew it sounded wrong but the πισω confused me
"Are you returning the clothes back?" would be a bit closer, though still sounds redundant in English.
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έκανα λάθος και duo told me as coorect: Do you take the clothes back? But this has a quite different meaning. am I right?
No -- "to take back" has two meanings -- you can take the clothes back to a shop, and the person at the shop can then take them back (into the shop's inventory).
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thank you, but it does not quite answer my question. Does that also apply to the Greek translation "έπιστρέφω"?
No, only the first one (returning the clothes to the shop / taking the clothes back to the shop).
But that's enough to make "take back" a possible translation of επιστρέφω πίσω.
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ευχαριστώ, τώρα κατάλαβα. Σκέφτηκα: they take back the clothes (they = οι πωλητές)
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πίσω is here greatly redundant. Πέρναιτε τα ρούχα πίσω; would do, I dare to contribute.
