Friday, January 20, 2012

Another German to English translation please?

What is Gegenst盲ndlichkeiten?



I'm reading this literary article on diaries and the translator didn't translate some key terms or words to English. From what I have been told, in German one can compound words to create a new one, so I bet that's why babel fish isn't doing it. It's hard trying to reconstruct whole lines from the crappy syntactic translation from babel fish and free translations.



By the way, does anybody know of a descent translation site?Another German to English translation please?
It means "Objectivity"
look at websites like

http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/鈥?/a>



gegenstaend means like on the opposite site,, and keiten could mean things...

so things that are the opposite of what they are



hard to explain :\Another German to English translation please?
disregard%26gt;%26gt;

opposites



opposite words or opposite personalities maybe.



like white%26lt;%26gt;black

calm%26lt;%26gt;noisy



it consists of gegen against staendig -standing keiten =-ies /like the ies in deitIES, or surgerIES - its is a plural of -keit /



dutchgirl is right, i messed it up,well somtimes even a human may give wrong results. this time the composite truly does not fit its parts... sorry.
Being is GegenstaendlichkeitAnother German to English translation please?
Gegenstand means "Item" "Gegenstaendlichkeiten" is not uses very often in normal german. I found the translation "entity" in the net, and I think it fits.

opposite means "gegens盲tzlich"
Hi!



This word is not really one of these german compounds. It's just a very long word :). It is NOT derived from "gegen = against" but from "Gegenstand = object". So literally this word means "objects", even though it's a very strange word. As far as I know it is normally used in the combination "world of objects" as opposed to the transcendental non-object world.



Hope this helps.
There are a few threads on LEO about it:



http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende%26amp;lang=de%26amp;sea鈥?/a>



One of those German words that just doesn't translate in its real sense but can only offer an approximation of what it means.
I dont know what the word means but a great sight is this one



www.babelfish.altavista.com

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