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.. only to find the owner had hid the ball behind his back
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Present simple sound weird in this sentence. Like the dog gets lost consantly and comes back after a year.
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Is there some nuance to either vender or tilbage that makes "the dog is going back" wrong?
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Why is this not "the dog turns around/back after one/a year"? In swedish "vänder tillbaka" is "turns around/back". When you turn around (vende rundt, vende om) you aren't back yet, you've just turned around in order to start your journey back!
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Not really - the "re" in return means again or back, so you're saying it twice. It's like saying "it's not nothing" when you mean it's not anything - you might hear a native English speaker say it, but not very often, and you wouldn't call it a correct translation.
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The dog returns in one year--better English but marked wrong.
