hat's : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

7 results for hat's

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Gender of German nouns:
{m} = der, {f} = die, {n} = das, {pl} = die

	German	English
	Ihn hat's gepackt.	He got bitten by the bug.; He's got the bug.
	Sie hat's bei mir gemacht, also werde ich den Spieß umdrehen und es auch bei ihr machen.	She did it to me, so I'm going to do it to her. Turnabout is fair play.
	Kapiert?; Verstanden?; Hat's geklingelt? [ugs.]	Savvy?; Geddit? [Br.] [coll.]
	Er hat's getan. Er hat's tatsächlich/wirklich getan!	He did it. He actually did it!
	"Das hat's bei uns nicht gegeben!" So eine Standardantwort, die achtzig Schüler aus acht Städten Ostdeutschlands bei ihren Recherchen über den Antisemitismus in der 1990 untergegangenen kommunistischen DDR erhielten - krass beschönigende Auskünfte von Eltern und Großeltern, Nachbarn und Lehrern. [G]	"We didn't have anything like that here!" That was the standard reply received by eighty schoolchildren from eight towns in Eastern Germany when they were researching anti-Semitism in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a state that ceased to exist in 1990 - answers from parents and grandparents, neighbours and teachers that blatantly glossed over the truth.
	"Die schwarze Szenesprache ist derart codiert" erklärt sie, "dass man immer hinterfragen muss, was wollen die Leute eigentlich sagen." So machte sie aus Codes wie "Yo man" und "shit" "die hundertfünfzig Bedeutungen haben können", in einem Gespräch unter Crackdealern den Satz: "Oh Mann, wir müssen das arme Schwein unbedingt im Krankenhaus besuchen. Den hat's übel erwischt." [G]	"The street language of the blacks is so coded" she explains, "that you always have to think about what the people really want to say." She therefore turned codes such as "Yo man" and "shit", "which can have a hundred and fifty different meanings", in a conversation between crack dealers into the line: "Oh Mann, wir müssen das arme Schwein unbedingt im Krankenhaus besuchen. Den hat's übel erwischt" (Hey man, we have to visit the poor guy in hospital. He's in a bad way).
	Lang genug hat's gedauert, dass in Deutschland gewagt wurde, was im Mutterland des Jazz schon immer selbstverständlich war. [G]	It has taken long enough for a group in Germany to dare what is already a matter-of-course in the motherland of jazz.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.