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Was ist die weibliche Form von "Kauz" wie in "seltsamer Kauz"?
Ich versuche einen Ausdruck, der wortwörtlich "rothaariges Wunder" bedeutet, sinngemäß zu übersetzen. Es soll eine liebevolle und zugleich ironische Umschreibung eines rothaarigen Mädchens ...
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German proper name or funny paraphrase for a slightly stupid dragon (Zmey Gorynych)
I’m trying to translate a sci-fi novel from Russian to German as a new hobby. Sometimes there are expressions which allude to cultural references which do not exist in German. In general, the novel’s ...
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How to say "Not even a year has gone by!" but with irony?
In Russian, if one says
Не прошло и года!
(literally Not even a year has gone by!)
it can, depending on the context, be meant and understood with irony.
E.g. one expected a certain event to ...
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