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German equivalent of the French expression “Mais de là à …”
What is the German equivalent of the English “aka”?How to translate “Relever une prescription” from French to German?Chatty expression in GermanExpression “from scratch” in GermanExpression “running out” in GermanHow to use the expression “also echt” in conversation?About the expression “macht es Ihnen etwas aus ~”German-French false friends dictionaryPseudo-French words in GermanGerman equivalent of the French expression “n'avoir rien à envier à personne”
In conversation, you can say, for instance:
Elle était du genre à se jeter sur les horoscopes. Mais de là à se faire refaire les lignes de la main...
- "She was always one to blindly believe in astrology, but to go through a surgery to have her palm lines changed..."
"Mais de là à + inf." is a very French expression that doesn't translate easily into other languages. It has the literal meaning of "But from there to (doing something much more extreme)", denoting the drastic shift from A to B, and is used to emphasise that someone has apparently done something extremely surprising/appalling/etc, even by his/her standards. When this expression is used, the clause tends to end with an ellipsis, making a dangling sentence.
How is this idea commonly/idiomatically expressed in German?
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In conversation, you can say, for instance:
Elle était du genre à se jeter sur les horoscopes. Mais de là à se faire refaire les lignes de la main...
- "She was always one to blindly believe in astrology, but to go through a surgery to have her palm lines changed..."
"Mais de là à + inf." is a very French expression that doesn't translate easily into other languages. It has the literal meaning of "But from there to (doing something much more extreme)", denoting the drastic shift from A to B, and is used to emphasise that someone has apparently done something extremely surprising/appalling/etc, even by his/her standards. When this expression is used, the clause tends to end with an ellipsis, making a dangling sentence.
How is this idea commonly/idiomatically expressed in German?
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In conversation, you can say, for instance:
Elle était du genre à se jeter sur les horoscopes. Mais de là à se faire refaire les lignes de la main...
- "She was always one to blindly believe in astrology, but to go through a surgery to have her palm lines changed..."
"Mais de là à + inf." is a very French expression that doesn't translate easily into other languages. It has the literal meaning of "But from there to (doing something much more extreme)", denoting the drastic shift from A to B, and is used to emphasise that someone has apparently done something extremely surprising/appalling/etc, even by his/her standards. When this expression is used, the clause tends to end with an ellipsis, making a dangling sentence.
How is this idea commonly/idiomatically expressed in German?
expressions french
asked 10 hours ago
Con-gras-tue-les-chiensCon-gras-tue-les-chiens
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In conversation, you can say, for instance:
Elle était du genre à se jeter sur les horoscopes. Mais de là à se faire refaire les lignes de la main...
- "She was always one to blindly believe in astrology, but to go through a surgery to have her palm lines changed..."
"Mais de là à + inf." is a very French expression that doesn't translate easily into other languages. It has the literal meaning of "But from there to (doing something much more extreme)", denoting the drastic shift from A to B, and is used to emphasise that someone has apparently done something extremely surprising/appalling/etc, even by his/her standards. When this expression is used, the clause tends to end with an ellipsis, making a dangling sentence.
How is this idea commonly/idiomatically expressed in German?
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To express this kind of exaggeration the Germans use
Aber sich jetzt auch noch die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
or
Aber sich deswegen gleich die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
The first one is a little rougher and therefore more popular with malicious tongues (bei Lästerern beliebter).
answered 9 hours ago
PollitzerPollitzer
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Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
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The typical phrase to emphasize on extremes is:
Ich habe ja schon mal eine Stunde auf den Zug gewartet, aber dass der sich so verspätet …
If the subject in main and dependent clause is identical, you can use an infinitive clause instead of the object clause:
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber dass sie sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern lässt …
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern zu lassen …
So, it boils down to aber+infinitive clause. A variant uses doch instead of aber and means just the same.
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To express this kind of exaggeration the Germans use
Aber sich jetzt auch noch die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
or
Aber sich deswegen gleich die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
The first one is a little rougher and therefore more popular with malicious tongues (bei Lästerern beliebter).
answered 9 hours ago
PollitzerPollitzer
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Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
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To express this kind of exaggeration the Germans use
Aber sich jetzt auch noch die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
or
Aber sich deswegen gleich die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
The first one is a little rougher and therefore more popular with malicious tongues (bei Lästerern beliebter).
answered 9 hours ago
PollitzerPollitzer
12.5k21334
Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
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To express this kind of exaggeration the Germans use
Aber sich jetzt auch noch die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
or
Aber sich deswegen gleich die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
The first one is a little rougher and therefore more popular with malicious tongues (bei Lästerern beliebter).
answered 9 hours ago
PollitzerPollitzer
12.5k21334
To express this kind of exaggeration the Germans use
Aber sich jetzt auch noch die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
or
Aber sich deswegen gleich die Handlinien umoperieren zu lassen ...
The first one is a little rougher and therefore more popular with malicious tongues (bei Lästerern beliebter).
answered 9 hours ago
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Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
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Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
Hi. How is the meaning of "gleich" interpreted here?
– Con-gras-tue-les-chiens
4 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
gleich means immediately, here; It's used idiomatically, meaning ca. without second thought, without pre-mediation, thus imediately, in an instance, at the same time. Drawing from your gloss "from there [...]", I should note "so gleich", although it sounds archaic; compare sofort, so dann, so gar which all fit in place of so gleich, more or less; so also isused as intensifier (e.g. so sehr) and thus isn't needed in sofort etc., as now, gleich etc have no Steigerung (increment?); But so can also mean like that, like so and more. Otherwise gleich means same.
– vectory
3 hours ago
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The typical phrase to emphasize on extremes is:
Ich habe ja schon mal eine Stunde auf den Zug gewartet, aber dass der sich so verspätet …
If the subject in main and dependent clause is identical, you can use an infinitive clause instead of the object clause:
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber dass sie sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern lässt …
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern zu lassen …
So, it boils down to aber+infinitive clause. A variant uses doch instead of aber and means just the same.
answered 10 hours ago
JankaJanka
35.1k23067
add a comment |
The typical phrase to emphasize on extremes is:
Ich habe ja schon mal eine Stunde auf den Zug gewartet, aber dass der sich so verspätet …
If the subject in main and dependent clause is identical, you can use an infinitive clause instead of the object clause:
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber dass sie sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern lässt …
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern zu lassen …
So, it boils down to aber+infinitive clause. A variant uses doch instead of aber and means just the same.
answered 10 hours ago
JankaJanka
35.1k23067
add a comment |
The typical phrase to emphasize on extremes is:
Ich habe ja schon mal eine Stunde auf den Zug gewartet, aber dass der sich so verspätet …
If the subject in main and dependent clause is identical, you can use an infinitive clause instead of the object clause:
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber dass sie sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern lässt …
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern zu lassen …
So, it boils down to aber+infinitive clause. A variant uses doch instead of aber and means just the same.
answered 10 hours ago
JankaJanka
35.1k23067
The typical phrase to emphasize on extremes is:
Ich habe ja schon mal eine Stunde auf den Zug gewartet, aber dass der sich so verspätet …
If the subject in main and dependent clause is identical, you can use an infinitive clause instead of the object clause:
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber dass sie sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern lässt …
Sie war ja schon immer 'ne Esospinnerin, aber sich die Handlinien chirurgisch ändern zu lassen …
So, it boils down to aber+infinitive clause. A variant uses doch instead of aber and means just the same.
answered 10 hours ago
JankaJanka
35.1k23067
answered 10 hours ago
JankaJanka
35.1k23067
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JankaJanka
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