On the blurb of the book "Der Schwarm" the first sentence reads as "Vor Peru verschwindet ein Fischer."
I only know "vor" to mean "before", "in front of" or "prior", but in this sentence it seems to mean "from".
Can you explain this?
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Sign up to join this communityOn the blurb of the book "Der Schwarm" the first sentence reads as "Vor Peru verschwindet ein Fischer."
I only know "vor" to mean "before", "in front of" or "prior", but in this sentence it seems to mean "from".
Can you explain this?
Peru has a coastline, a fisherman is often in the sea. And there he disappears - somewhere before/in front of/not far from the coastline of Peru in the deep sea waters ๐๐๐