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Übersetzungen – Questions on issues with translating from or into German. Use with care as these questions are very likely to be closed as a translation request, which would be off topic. Don't use this tag on phrase requests or proverb analogies.
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Confused by a use of 'beteiligen'
A possible translation would be "Tenants can engage the tax office in the costs of ....". …
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'Danach wir könnten in einem Restaurant essen' is it correct to use the Dativ in this sentence?
The German "in" with accusative basically means the English "into", while the German "in" with dative means the English "in".
You can go into a restaurant: "in ein Restaurant gehen".
You can run into …
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"[Regeln, die Menschen] sich für das eigene Handeln geben"
That is quite a sentence.
Let's shorten this step by step and mercilessly, to get to the core of the part “sich für das eigene Handeln geben”:
Hinter dem unbedingten Individualismus des Urteils, so w …
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German equivalent of "Dear Hiring Team"
We usually don't write "Liebe(r)" when addressing an unknown or not well known person formally, especially not when asking or applying for something. There normally has to be some kind of personal bon …
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Searching for the original German Translator of Michelangelos "Rime 194" and 190 ("Ich bin n...
I can't tell you the translator, but look at page 34/35 in your Hasenclever pdf, verse No. 12, it has a different translation of the second verse. … Maybe your translation is Rilke? It seems like quite a poetic translation, and he did translate some Michelangelo. Just a speculative idea. …
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Mise en place (fr) or prep (en)
In professional cooking, a lot of French terms are used. Mise en place is the correct term in German, too, and it's the only one that I can think of that really fits cooking.
If you insist on translat …
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Note on 1549 Narrenschiff woodcut
"Nüt on Ursach" (Nichts [ist] ohne Ursache. Nothing [happens] without a reason/cause.)
It's a motto from the popular book "Das Narrenschiff" (ship of fools) by Sebastian Brant that was first published …
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Choked on a piece of pumpkin
"Sich verschlucken" means food got into the respiratory tract instead of the gillet. This normally results in coughing, in more serious cases the person can't breathe any more and needs help (claps, o …
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Word for "time thief" in German
I don't know of a word with "klept" in that sense.
A phonetic and semantic association I have is the word "die Gelegenheit" for an occasion/opportunity that is limited in time. Not sure if that helps. …
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PhD thesis defense in German: Rigorosum, Disputation, Kolloquium, or Verteidigung?
I have heard this being refered to as Verteidigung, Disputation and Rigorosum. These are all in use. Which one is used depends on university and faculty tradition I'd say, but they're all understood.
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Is "Gesellschaft" the right translation for "company" in the sense of visitors?
So if the English word "company" additionally expresses that they're my guests, that part gets lost in translation when using "Gesellschaft". …
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Meaning of Idiomatic Expression: "einen an der Waffel haben"
"Waffel" is a pastry, but it was also an old word for mouth or head that isn't used any more except in some idioms.
The english word "to waffle" (to ramble, to prate) is related.
"Du hast einen an der …
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Meaning of eben auch
In many contexts, no literal translation into English is possible and the sentence has to be rearranged somehow to convey the meaning. …
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Meaning of "Wir sind ein Schwarm"
The lyrics of "Schwarm" (https://dielieferanten.bandcamp.com/track/schwarm) are quite cryptic, they're certainly ambiguous.
To me it seems like they're some contemplations about life as a university s …
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Das, äh, sieht sehr übersichtlich aus
The scene is in a Nouvelle Cuisine restaurant, and the guests get served tiny portions.
How does a gentleman diplomatically say that portions are tiny without saying that portions are tiny? Loriot's c …
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