zwielichtigen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

2 results for zwielichtigen

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

	German	English
	Mit seinen Surrealismen, die in einer merkwürdigen, fast zwielichtigen Sphäre zwischen Nachkriegswelt und Science Fiction angesiedelt sind, wusste der heute 44-jährige Maler Mitte der Neunziger begehrliche Sammlerherzen wie im Sturm zu erobern. [G]	With his surrealistic works, located in a strange, almost twilight sphere between the post-war world and science fiction, the 44 year-old painter succeeded, in the nineties, in taking covetous collectors' hearts by storm.
	Sie meinen, die Öffentlichkeit wendet sich eher dem Undurchsichtigen, dem Zwielichtigen zu? [G]	You mean that the public bestows its love rather on the shady and dubious characters?
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.