The difference between Come back and go back

Question

سلام دوستان.

میخواستم بدون تفاوت بین Come back و Go back چی هست؟

مثلا میخوایم بگیم آنها از فرانسه به هند سفر کردند و بعد از یک سال به فرانسه برگشتند؟

(توی این جمله "برگشتند" رو باید Came back بگیم یا Went back)؟

They traveled to India and after 1 year came back (or went back?) to the France.

Answer 1

Hi

Come back( to here), I'm speaking here, I want you to come back here.

Go back( to there),your friends are waiting for you in X city، I want you to go back to that(X) city.

Answer 2

The use of verb 'go' is not quite the same in English and Persian.

As far as I know, American-English speaking people, use 'go' whenever you're talking about a place other than the one you're currently located at.

So for instance, you'd say: I'm going to get a coffee, any body?!

One of your colleagues replies: Yeah sure, I'll go with you.

While in Persian, we would have said: من باهات میام which will be literally translated to: I'll come with you! Which is not the right way to put words, in this case.

We usually make this mistake of 'Literal Translation (ترجمه تحت‌اللفظی)' from Persian to English which in many cases, does not convey the sense of the original meaning. This more shows when you try to do a machine-translation of a Metaphore for instance; or an idiom or a saying! You'll end up providing a pure nonsense by translating it word-for-word!

Cheers :)