Speak German? Translate this for me please

[Seen the light]

Sarah wundert sich darueber: was IST die Beziehung zwischen uns?

[quip]

1. Sarah wondered to herself: what's the deal with our relationship?

[Seen the light]

4. Thanks! n/t

[Cabcere]

5. Much better than my clumsy translation

and I even had to look up a few words on LEO. :blush: I'm not worthy!

[quip]

8. I was just guessing really. I took some German, but I never got very far.

Now if I'd taken Spanish in high school, I'd be fluent by now... :(

[Cabcere]

9. I took two years...and that was just two years ago.

:( I'm kind of pathetic.


The ironic thing is, I'm taking Arabic now and I think that is actually helping me with my German. I know, the two languages are not even remotely similar, but when I'm studying my brain goes into "foreign language mode" and German is my most proficient one. (When I started taking German freshman year of college, I would do the same thing with French, which I took in high school.) :shrug: It's kind of interesting, I think. :hi:

[quip]

12. Holy Crap-- Arabic...

I studied some Hebrew in college and it was weird enough, but Arabic looked downright scribblish!

Ma' alsalam. :hi:

[Cabcere]

19. Yeah, I'm thinking I probably should've started it right after I finished German

so I could get up to the 200 level before graduating, but a friend of mine (who is in a 300 level course now) tells me it wouldn't make much difference, lol. :hi: It's interesting, and pretty cool...but definitely not easy.

[skater314159]

29. It takes a MINIMUM of two years

of INTENSIVE study - with classes, language lab and chatting with friends for practise to get really proficient at Arabic.

I was studying it so that I could read the Quran and Hadith (since any translation is not the "real" Quran or Hadith) for my Religious Anthropology... when 9/11 happened. Our class got death and bomb threats (apparently some dip shits thought we MUST be terrists) so I quit that and did a "memory whipe".

Good luck and hang in there!

[Dr. Strange]

10. Ausgezeichnet! (keine text)

[quip]

15. Unfuckinglaublich!

[Dr. Strange]

16. Wir erholen nicht von diesem.

[quip]

17. Ja aber dieses geht bis elf

[Cabcere]

21. Das ist was sie hat gesagt.

:silly:

[quip]

22. Sie hat "dobly" gesagt!

Was ist los mit ihr????

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. '...die Flipperwaldt gersput'

:rofl:

[Cabcere]

24. My dog's got no nose.

How does he smell?

Awful!

:rofl: (Nice joke, Hitler.) :P

[Cabcere]

2. I'll give it a shot

Sarah wonders (asks herself this): what IS the relationship between us?

[Haole Girl]

3. Per Dictionary.com translator:

Sarah is surprised over it: what is the relationship between us?




Not bad, after 4 Bailey's! lol

[suninvited]

13. I love Dictionary.com

I do all our bulletins at work from English to Spanish with it.

[MediaBabe]

18. That agrees somewhat with BabelFish

Sarah is surprised at it: which IS the relationship between us

[cbayer]

6. Sarah won the sick tar rubber: was it the well-hung business swisher one?

It's been a while.

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. "Sarah wondered quietly....

what IS the deal with stripes and plaids?"


sorry.

[Swede]

11. Let's get drunk and invade Poland?

I could be wrong. :shrug:

[JVS]

14. Sarah wonders to herself: what IS the relationship between us?

wundert is definitely present tense

wunderte would be past tense.

[pokerfan]

20. "Do you like what you doth see...?" said the voluptuous elf-maiden

as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within.

(German is a very dense language, you see)

[Dr. Strange]

26. I think I prefer your translation.

Geben Sie mir Brüste!

[flygal]

25. OMG - I'm heading to my German lesson in less than an hour

and this thread is cracking me up! Maybe it's a sign I should have been studying instead of goofing around on DU. ARGH - we're studying genitive case today - help...

[MissHoneychurch]

27. Ahh ... that will be fun

Des Hauses, des Mannes .... Enjoy :D

Das ist die Idee meines Gehirns :P

[skater314159]

28. Sarah wonders to herself: what IS up with the relationship/dealings between us two (familiar)

Would be my not so elegant or concise answer...

I'm horrid at "running translations" or concise ones, as I wanna pack the underlying meaning in with the literal on the surface translation... and in German, that can make for some really long translations :silly:

skater pi

[Dr. Strange]

30. Try this:

Сарии интересует к себе: вверх с отношением между нами?