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Dictionary > hinter verbs

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  • (da)hintersteigen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): ist hintergestiegen
    Preterite (written past): stieg hinter
    1.
    to climb to the rear
    (Technically, it can mean that, but I doubt you'll see it in real life any time soon. Maybe for climbing to the backseat of a car from the front.)
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    2.
    to understand something
    ("dahintersteigen" - the "da" often gets split off and moved elsewhere. Pretty similar to "durchsteigen", but this one is more about one particular "mystery". Think of a magical trick that you can't understand how it's done.)
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  • hinterbringen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergebracht
    Preterite (written past): brachte hinter
    1.
    to bring to the rear
    (Sometimes also used in the sense of to swallow something that's hard to swallow. )
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  • hinterfragen
    (hinter (insep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hinterfragt
    Preterite (written past): hinterfragte
    1.
    question, second-guessing, doing "one's own research"
    (it's about not believing everything you're told. Originally, it was a good thing, but during the Covid pandemic in 2020, the verb got hijacked by "the skeptical ones")
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  • hintergehen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): ist hintergegangen
    Preterite (written past): ging hinter
    1.
    go to the rear
    (Can be a back room or just the back of a crowd.)
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  • hintergehen
    (hinter (insep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergangen
    Preterite (written past): hinterging
    1.
    to double-cross, to betray, to deceive
    (NOT for cheating in a relationship.)
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  • hinterlassen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergelassen
    Preterite (written past): ließ hinter
    1.
    to let someone go "to the rear"
    (Not very common, but it'll be used for example in the context of letting someone enter the backroom.)
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    Opposite (closest): vorlassen
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  • hinterlassen
    (hinter (insep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hinterlassen
    Preterite (written past): hinterließ
    1.
    leave behind
    (in the sense of something remaining after the cause is gone. Works for leaving messages, a chaos after a party as well as for the idea of a grandpa leaving a fortune to his grandkids)
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  • hinterlegen
    (hinter (insep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hinterlegt
    Preterite (written past): hinterlegte
    1.
    to lodge, to deposit
    (For money, often in context of a security deposit. Also sometimes for paperwork)
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    2.
    to add a background
    ("hinterlegen mit" - primarily for texts, but it's also occasionally used for music.)
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  • hintersetzen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergesetzt
    Preterite (written past): setzte hinter
    1.
    to sit down in the rear
    (Usually used in contexts where someone moves from the front to the rear. Think of a car where the one riding shotgun is going to the rear for some reason.)
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    Opposite (closest): vorsetzen
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  • hinterstellen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergestellt
    Preterite (written past): stellte hinter
    1.
    to put to the rear
    (Not very common. Think of putting something into the back room of a coffee shop for instance.)
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  • hintertragen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergetragen
    Preterite (written past): trug hinter
    1.
    to carry to the rear
    (Only in a literal sense of carrying an object to the rear, like into a backroom or something.)
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  • hinterwerfen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergeworfen
    Preterite (written past): warf hinter
    1.
    to throw to the rear
    (Not really needed in practice. It's just here for CoMpLeTiOn.)
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  • hinterziehen
    (hinter (sep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hintergezogen
    Preterite (written past): zog hinter
    1.
    to pull to the rear
    (Only in a literal sense. Not very common.)
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  • hinterziehen
    (hinter (insep))
    Perfect (spoken past): hat hinterzogen
    Preterite (written past): hinterzog
    1.
    to dodge, to withhold
    (For taxes only.)
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