You could try LEO German-English Dictionary, http://dict.leo.org/ - works both ways. The phrase may be hard to decipher because it has no spaces: it should be "Die Blume prangt und f盲llt dann ab." It means "The flower flaunts and then falls off [its stalk]" or "falls down." It may mean that the person lying there was a beautiful "flower" of a person before he or she died, but it may also have a hint of irony (suggesting vanity or pride, which "came before a fall" as the saying goes, or perhaps this person lived with such a confident or even arrogant air that s/he seemed to believe s/he would live forever, stay forever young, this young, beautiful flower flaunting his or her happiness. A Dutch poet once wrote (my trans.): "I saw a woman stride/as if she'd never die.")
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I just found the whole phrase:
"Die Blume prangt und f盲llt dann ab; So bl眉ht der Mensch und sinkt in's Grab."
"The flower flaunts and then falls off; thus flourishes man and sinks into his grave."
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How do you find a translation from German to English?The words need to be separated. Perhaps they were put together because there was not enough space on the tombstone. I think I understand the meaning from the context, knowing that the "die Blume" means "the flower".
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hope that helps! good luck!How do you find a translation from German to English?
find a German/english dictionnary ??
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