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Usage Note
Hintergrund combines hinter ('behind') and Grund ('ground') and works for visual backgrounds, a person's background, and the wider context of events. The opposite, the foreground, is Vordergrund.
Examples
"Im Hintergrund spielte Musik."
Natural Translation
Music was playing in the background.
Literal Translation
In-the background played music.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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