Was heißt »Ese­lei« auf Englisch?

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

  • asininity
  • folly

Synonyme

Clow­ne­rie:
clownery
Flachs:
flax
Non­sens:
nonsense
Pos­se:
antic
buffoonery
burlesque
drollery
farce
Schnack:
chitchat
Schnur­re:
funny tale
Scho­te:
silique
Spaß:
amusement
entertainment
fun
humour
Ulk:
gag
joke

Sinnverwandte Wörter

Dumm­heit:
stupidity

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Anger is the beginning of folly.

  • Not every error is to be called folly.

  • I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

  • Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

  • He blushed at his folly.

  • No medicine can cure folly.

  • It is an act of folly.

  • It's folly to eat so much.

  • What a piece of folly!

  • You should be ashamed of your folly.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

Hand­lung:
act
action
deed
doing
operation

Eselei übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Eselei. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: Eselei. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 7761080, 11046236, 1911185, 411073, 298675, 282409, 42506, 41540, 36049 & 16833. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR