Übersetzung - Questions on translation from or to German.
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Difference between “Es sind” and “Es gibt” for asserting existence of something
In English we say There are... and I know that I've seen es gibt used in German. I've also seen es sind. Are these phrases identical?
There are many flowers in the garden =
Es gibt viele Blumen ...
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Gibt es Dialekt-Wörterbücher?
Gibt es Dialekt-Wörterbücher, also Wörterbücher für z. B. Deutsch–Bayrisch oder Bayrisch–Hessisch?
Wenn ja, welche könnt ihr empfehlen?
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Sprache für automatische Übersetzung ins Deutsche
Ich vergleiche gern die unterschiedlichen Sprachen eines Lemmas in der Wikipedia. Diese sind längst nicht immer gleich gut gepflegt. Manchmal finden sich in einzelnen anderen Sprachen interessante ...
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“Visual saliency” auf Deutsch
Ich lese zur Zeit ein Paper, in dem der Ausdruck "visual saliency" immer wieder vorkommt, z.B. im folgenden Kontext:
In a user study, the authors evaluated in which way and how much the
visual ...
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How would I say “Or, call us at (phone number)” in German?
How would I say "Or, call us at (phone number)" in German, or perhaps "Or, contact us at (phone number)? This is to be placed next to an e-mail contact form. The tone of the site is professional ...
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“All things being equal” auf deutsch
Was ist eine gute (d. h. für geschriebenes Deutsch) Übersetzung des englischen
All things being equal...
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How to translate “Relever une prescription” from french to german?
How do you say in german when a nurse becomes aware of a medical prescription and prepares everything according to what the doctor asks?
In french we say "Relever une prescription". The action itself ...
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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 the idiom “no harm, no foul” in German
Do similar figure of speech exist in German or should one translate it literally?
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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 of “He has been allowed to dance, but I haven't.”
There are two versions that are possible:
1)
Er hat tanzen dürfen, aber ich habe nicht gedurft.
2)
Er hat tanzen dürfen, aber ich habe nicht dürfen.
Which one is correct?
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Prägnante deutsche Übersetzung von “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
In seiner bekannten Rede bei der Absolventenfeier in Stanford 2005 prägte Steve Jobs den Ausdruck
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Ich verstehe die Bedeutung der Worte, suche aber eine prägnante ...
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Den Unblöden gehört die Welt! - What does Unblöden mean?
Media Markt has a campaign where they state that the world belongs to the "Unblöden", but I don't understand what "Unblöden" means and Google translate won't translate it.
So what does "Unblöden" ...
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“erstellen” or “erzeugen”?
Software X is producing printed reports, based on user input. How would I translate accurately 'produced with X' and 'produced by X', as both erstellen and erzeugen seem to be very near in their ...
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Questions on a “Take-off” Poem
Some years ago, I wrote a poem entitled "Berlin ist die Hauptstadt Deutschlands," to the tune of "Kalkutta Liegt am Ganges" using a technique called "parallel construction." (That is, I was probably ...
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Trace Debugging - Übersetzung von trace?
In letzter Zeit begegnen mir immer wieder Worte wie "trace debugging" oder "power trace" im Englischen, für die mir keine sinnvollen Übersetzungen einfallen.
Ein "trace" beschreibt dabei eine Art ...
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Kann man einen “fachlich geprägten Kunden” einem “technisch argumentierenden Entwickler” entgegen setzen?
It is about Software Engineering, where it usually comes to problems in communication between the customers (domain-specific, functional, professional lexis) and developers (technical, generic lexis). ...
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Wie kann ich “swipe” am besten übersetzen?
Ich übersetze eine Bedienungsanleitung, aber ich finde keine gute Übersetzung für das Wort "to swipe".
Es handelt sich hierbei um "swipe on the screen up or down ...", wie man es von der Benutzung ...
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“power aware design” in German
What would be a good translation for a power aware design when speaking about an electronic design flow?
Energiebewusster Entwurf?
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translation of a line from the german version of “We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line”
I was reading the wiki page about the WW2 song We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line and there is a line there:
Bis zum Wäschetag, ja bis zum Wäschetag
that was translated ...
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Meaning of schon in “das schaff' ich schon”
Watching Futurama, one of the characters said:
"das schaff' ich schon!"
What exactly does this mean, and how does "schon" change the meaning?
(I don't remember, but I think it was Fry, which ...
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What is the German equivalent to “to keep under someone's thumb”?
What is the German equivalent to the idiom under someone's thumb.
Even if not exactly, is there any phrase having similar meaning?
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How to say “please do not slam the door” in German?
How to say "please do not slam the door" in German?
I tried to translate it like this:
"Bitte knall die Tür nicht zu", but there must be another way because I googled it with no result.
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Is “zweisprachige Ausgaben” the right expression?
I like to re-read in German translation my favorite authors1, and I enjoy it even more when they are in the form of dual-language editions.
To my surprise, however, I'm having a difficult time ...
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How does one say “illustrated dictionary” in German?
I'm looking for the German-language equivalent of the Petit Larousse Illustré, and, embarrassingly enough, I can't figure out what keywords to search for it with. Or rather, everything I've ...
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Legal firstname, legal lastname in german?
Question:
I need to translate the form labels
legal lastname
legal firstname
into German.
The legal is important here,
since it's important the user enters his official name.
Lastname is ...
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Is there an idiomatic equivalent for “polyglot”?
Does the word polyglot, meaning "knowing or using several languages" translate directly into German, or is there an idiomatic equivalent? Google Translate just adds an extra "t" at the end, as German ...
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What do you call a “Questions & Answers site” (Q&A) in German?
I am looking for a German term to describe StackExchange - the English term seems to be "Questions & Answers site" (Q&A) which has no equivalent in German (that I'm aware of). The literal ...
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How to translate “single-threaded” in a software documentation?
As the question states... how would you translate "single-threaded" in a software documentation? "Einzel-gethreaded" sounds kinda weird to me. The sentence I like to translate is the following:
...
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Is this the correct way to spell the slang term for 'toilet' in German — 'Scheißehaus'?
I'm after a particular slang term for 'toilet' in German but I'm not sure of the spelling of it. I think it's Scheißehaus. If this is the correct term, should it be written as one word, two words or ...
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How to translate the word “download” to German?
In German there is runterladen or herunterladen for the term to download.
Is there a common translation for the noun of download that could be used for translating i.g.
the amount of downloads ...
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Ist es “die” Webseite und “der” Link?
Ich habe all meine Computerkenntnis in den USA erlernt, und deshalb verstehe ich kaum, wie man technische Sachen nennt, und ob man die, der oder das sagt.
Könnte mir jemand helfen, die folgenden ...
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What's a good translation for “awkward” in the context of “awkward person” or “awkward situation”?
There doesn't really seem to be a German word with the exact same meanings and connotations as the English word "awkward". How would you translate it in a sentence like "He's an awkward person" or ...
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Is “Sie brauchen nicht das Geld” a correct sentence [closed]
Is the sentence "Sie brauchen nicht das Geld" correct? This is what Google translate suggests as translation for "You don't need the money". I find it really weird.
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How does the crew address the captain in “Das Boot”?
In the movie Das Boot, the crew address the captain with a word I don't understand.
I think it may be "Kaleun", which I assume is short for "Kapitan Leutnant".
Am I right? Is that a real word?
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Wie heißt in einer Zahnarztpraxis der Angestellte, der Kundentermine und Bezahlungen behandelt?
Es gibt den Arzt, die Krankenschwester/Behandlungsassistenten, aber oft auch eine "Sekretärin" die am Telefon antwortet, usw.
Wie aber heißt die Funktion im Titel der Frage genannte ...
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“Don't count on it”
What's the best way to say "Don't count on it" to somebody in German when they have high hopes on something that is more likely not to happen than to happen?
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Ist “rauf voten” und “runter voten” eine akzeptable Übersetzung für “upvote” und “downvote”?
Was ist eine angemessene deutsche Übersetzung von upvote und downvote?
Das deutsche Verb voten findet man in Duden Online.
Zur englischen Orthografie siehe EL&U.
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Das Highlander-Prinzip
In einem internationalen Meeting sprach ein (deutscher) Arbeitskollege etwa folgenden Satz:
I'm not sure if we can handle this
with the Highlander principle
.
Gemeint war das Motto "Es kann ...
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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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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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What's the right German word to use for the English “troll”?
We do use "Troll" and "trollen" in German forums. But is there another Word that predates the Internet that could be used instead?
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Meaning of “Komplex” (mathematical context)
I am currently struggling to understand the article “Zur Theorie der faktorisierbaren Gruppen”, by L. Redei in Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hung. 1, 74--98 (1950).
As might be expected, there are several ...
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What is the meaning of “Abkettrand”?
I believe "Abkettrand" is a knitting term of some description but have been unable to find a translation to English. Here is a sample paragraph where it's appeared:
Zum Schluss die letzte Masche ...
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Basic Deconstruction of German [closed]
I'm reading a book called "The Four Hour Chef" at the moment, and if anyone here knows the book, or its author Tim Ferriss, you might know that he has a fascinating method for generating a basic ...
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Hans im Glück - Help
I am reading Hans im Glück and I am having a hard time understanding the following sentence:
Ihr habt Euch jederzeit zu helfen gewusst", sprach der Schleifer, "könnt Ihr's nun dahin bringen, dass ...
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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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Technical drawing glossary: How do you translate “cross section” (of a boat)?
I'm designer and 3D artist and I'm translating my portfolio in German.
I'm uncertain how to translate some specific design words, in this case:
(of a boat, yacht)
side cross section
I found ...
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What would be some good exercises with a language partner for a beginner?
Does anyone have advice for keeping a conversation going with a language partner. I've been studying German for 6 weeks, twice a week at night school. So my vocabulary is quite small and apart from ...
