Was heißt »Den­ker« auf Englisch?

Das Substantiv Den­ker lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • thinker
  • philosopher

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Viele herausragende Denker, die ihr Leben lang unbekannt blieben, wurden postum berühmt.

Many great thinkers who were unknown while alive became famous after death.

Der beste Beobachter und der tiefste Denker ist immer der mildeste Richter.

The best observes and the deepest thinkers are always the gentlest judges.

Er ist ein unabhängiger Denker.

He's an independent thinker.

He is an independent thinker.

Die Unfähigkeit, einen Klassenkameraden zu verprügeln, hat wohl mehr große Denker hervorgebracht als alle Geheimnisse des Universums.

The inability to beat up a classmate has produced more great thinkers than all the secrets of the Universe.

Deutschland ist als das Land der Dichter und Denker bekannt.

Germany is known for being the country of poets and thinkers.

Freuds Einsichten in das menschliche Verhalten führten zu seiner Anerkennung als tiefgründiger Denker.

Freud's insights into human behavior led to him being honored as a profound thinker.

Ist es wirklich wegweisend, das Volk der Dichter und Denker zu einem Volk von Müllsortierern umzuerziehen?

Is it really groundbreaking to transform the people of poets and philosophers into a people of trash collectors?

Er ist ein Genie, ein Philosoph, ein abstrakter Denker.

He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.

Weibliche Wortform

Den­ke­rin:
philosopher
thinker

Synonyme

Ei­er­kopf:
egghead
For­scher:
explorer
researcher
Ge­lehr­ter:
scholar
The­o­re­ti­ker:
theoretician
theorist
theorizer
Wei­ser:
sage

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Twenty-three centuries ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus wrote about the existence of other worlds in a letter to Herodotus.

  • If you had remained silent, you would have remained a philosopher.

  • People called him a philosopher.

  • A beard doesn't make a philosopher, nor does wearing a cheap coat.

  • English mother-tongue speakers are embarrassed to correctly pronounce the name of the German philosopher Kant, which is a homophone for a vulgar expression referring to the female genitals.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre was a famous French philosopher.

  • Just between us, he's not a deep thinker.

  • The philosopher's stone was a legendary substance capable of turning base metals into gold.

  • Alchemists believed that the philosopher's stone was capable of extending a person's life.

  • When a philosopher answers me, I no longer understand my question.

  • Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher.

  • She's an independent thinker.

  • A philosopher is a man who can solve all problems, except for his own.

  • He's no original thinker, but simply imitates what others have already said and done.

  • In about 300 BCE, Greek philosopher Epicurus proposed that the universe's boundaries were limitless and that space was full of other worlds.

  • Karl Valentin was a philosopher.

  • John Locke, the well-known philosopher of freedom, was a shareholder of the Royal African Company, which bought and sold slaves.

  • Einstein regarded himself as a philosopher.

  • Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Frei­den­ker:
freethinker
Quer­den­ker:
contrarian
Vor­den­ker:
thought leader

Den­ker übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Denker. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Denker. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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