Was heißt »Be­frem­den« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv »Be­frem­den« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • surprise
  • surprising
  • disconcertment

Synonyme

Er­stau­nen:
astonishment
Ver­wun­de­rung:
amazement
astonishment

Englische Beispielsätze

  • It wouldn't surprise me if we saw a rainbow today in this weather.

  • Tom looked up in surprise.

  • The bad weather took me by surprise.

  • "Why didn't you ring us? You know we would've come and picked you up from the station!" "It was meant to be a surprise that I came early."

  • That was a surprise.

  • "What's that you've got behind your back?" "Nothing. Nothing at all." "Show me!" "For goodness sake, Mary! It's your birthday present. It was meant to be a surprise. Why do you always come bursting into the room like that without knocking?"

  • They came and knocked on my door – which was a surprise – introducing themselves as Chris, Jocelyn, and Robin.

  • Mary! Well, this is a surprise. Come in! Have you eaten yet?

  • Tom spoilt the film for Mary by revealing its surprise ending.

  • It is a finding that is as surprising as it is groundbreaking.

  • It's a discovery as surprising as it is groundbreaking.

  • Tom's throwing you a surprise party.

  • Her arrival came as a huge surprise to us.

  • Doesn't his answer surprise you?

  • There was a surprising amount of interest.

  • A surprising number of interested people came.

  • Because of the knight's unusual way of hopping around the board, beginners are often taken by surprise and find themselves the victims of a knight's fork.

  • This news is really surprising.

  • Their behaviour continues to surprise me.

  • Bit of a surprise, eh?

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Befremden. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: Befremden. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11246124, 11223955, 11070874, 10987817, 10984882, 10831842, 10808861, 10767021, 10672539, 10608600, 10608599, 10511677, 10505980, 10490952, 10314497, 10314496, 10285285, 10271172, 10218361 & 10119679. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR