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How to translate Perfekt into English
I came across these sentences with their translations:
Du bist aus Berlin gekommen. - You have come from Berlin.
Wo seid ihr so lange gewesen? - Where were you so long?
From what I have ...
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Translation of a Nietzsche-related text; OK? [closed]
In an answer of mine on Philosophy, I (neither native-German nor native-English speaking) translated some German to English as follows.
Nachdem man nun weiß, was die Zukunft von Ehe und Gattin ...
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Translation help? [closed]
I recently wanted to see if the owner of a domain name was possibly interested in selling it to me. I don't speak German, so I had to use Google Translate to compose the email. She responded in ...
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German Pangrams
Do you know any German pangrams that use special characters like ö, ä etc?
If possible, with their english translation and transliteration in ASCII characters.
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Translation of “gut x kilometer”
What's the English translation of "gut dreißig Kilometer"? As in:
Es befindet sich gut dreißig Kilometer außerhalb von London?
I'm not sure whether it's 'a good thirty kilometres' or 'some ...
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Translation of “Links: Miss AuberginehaarPlusZombiehasentasche.”
I cannot figure out what's meant by the following sentence:
Links means left.
I failed to find "Miss" as a German word to make sense in that context:
Miss
And about that long word (train), my ...
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Translation of Gesamtbetriebsrat
Would you translate this as 'general works council' or 'workers council', or something else? The article I'm looking at refers to 'Gesamtbetriebsratsvorsitzende' (presumably the chairman) and later ...
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What is a good translation of “Aus dem Nähkästchen erzählen”?
Can you help me finding a good translation for the German idiom Aus dem Nähkästchen erzählen/plaudern.
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How do you translate German wordplay into English?
This is a somewhat generic issue, I suppose, in that it affects both English-to-German and German-to-English translation.
Today I came across what I thought was an example of good German wordplay:
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Wie heißen die Metrokacheln eigentlich im englischen Orginal? [closed]
Ich probiere gerade die Windows-8-Beta aus und hab schon herausgefunden, dass die Knöpfe, die das Startmenü ersetzen, jetzt Kacheln heißen.
Leider hat sich Wikipedia noch nicht dieser neuen ...
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Which of these is more common to say? - zweideutig, mehrdeutig, vieldeutig
Well, the title has the question, but I also wanted to ask if "deutig" alone means something.
One would think that it comes from Deutung (interpretation?) and since it looks like an adjective, it ...
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“Nicht ohne Grund wird unser ausgezeichneter Support in den Bewertungen oft erwähnt” [closed]
Wie würde man diesen Satz übersetzen? Ich würde spontan
There is a reason why our outstanding support is often mentioned in the ratings
wählen, aber irgendwas stört mich an dem Satz. Wäre die ...
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What is the meaning of “Schlängelgang”?
What does "Schlängelgang" mean? I wasn't able to find it anywhere. This is from Fontane's Stine:
Ich verstehe mich ein bißchen auf das menschliche Herz; denn sieh, wer jahrelang auf dem ...
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What does “beanspruchungsgerecht” mean?
This is the context:
Vorteile des Werkstoffs: Grauguß
Im Gießverfahren leicht formbar, deshalb kann man Gußgestelle ohne
Mehrkosten beanspruchungsgerecht gestalten
I understand that ...
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What's the meaning of “kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst”?
What does "kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst" mean?
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Translation for 'abticken' needed
I couldn't find a match for the german "abticken". What is the word in English for that?
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How to translate “Anstrich” in draw/wrinting context into English?
The word "Anstrich" is used in different contexts. Here I'm refering to a stroke beginning the sketch of a character. This stroke is not part of the character but often used when it comes to ...
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How do you say: “Freundschaft, Genossen!” in English?
While thinking about this question:
Are "friends" and "Freunde" false-friends?
I realized that there is one use of "Freund" that does not indicate a lot of closeness:
How do you ...
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What is an English phrase for “produktionsbedingter Leerraum”?
What is a good English phrase for "produktionsbedingter Leerraum"?
The literal meaning is "an empty space caused by production" and tells buyers that the half-empty cookie box is a feature.
