Owen

[cyan patio]

Please be patient

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[median quiver]

Track down.
In fact, the person leaves clues and you study them in order to follow the trail to the origin.
There's also "remonter la piste (de qqun)".

[agile sphinx]

why the aux?

vous remontez facilement les auteurs?

[median quiver]

Remonter means go to the origin. So you use à with the verb.
Remonter à l'antiquité = go back to ancient times.

[agile sphinx]

hmm

so in this context does it mean go to the origin or track down

cause if its track down i dont get the use of à with it

[median quiver]

It's the same verb for both, so you use à in both cases.

The taggers are the origin, and you go back to it. So there's the idea of tracking them down, following the trail to them.

[agile sphinx]

ah ok thank you