zurückführen

== German == === Etymology === From zurück- +‎ führen. === Pronunciation === === Verb === zurückführen (weak, third-person singular present führt zurück, past tense führte zurück, past participle zurückgeführt, auxiliary haben) (transitive) (transitive) to return (to lead/direct someone back to where they came from) (transitive) to return, to repatriate (to return an object to its original owner, especially to the country of origin) (ambitransitive) to lead back (to somwhere; of paths, etc.) (transitive) to ascribe, to attribute [with auf (+ accusative) ‘to an initial reason or factor’] Synonym: festmachen ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== Rückführung === Further reading === “zurückführen” in Duden online “zurückführen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)