Was heißt »Of­fen­si­ve« auf Englisch?

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

  • offensive

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Die Pläne für die Offensive waren geheim.

The plans for the offensive were secret.

Mehrere Soldaten wurden bei der Offensive verletzt.

Several soldiers were injured in the offensive.

Die Polizei startete eine Offensive gegen einige Drogendealer.

The police conducted an offensive against some drug dealers.

Das Leben ist eine Offensive gegen den sich ständig wiederholenden Mechanismus des Universums.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Synonyme

An­griff:
attack
At­ta­cke:
attack
Ein­fall:
idea
incidence
Sturm:
storm
Über­fall:
holdup
raid
Über­griff:
encroachment
infringement
Vor­stoß:
advance

Antonyme

De­fen­si­ve:
defensive

Englische Beispielsätze

  • This is an offensive sentence.

  • English usage is not uniform throughout the world, and some words are considered more offensive in some areas of the English-speaking world than elsewhere.

  • He had drunk too much and became offensive.

  • The Viet Cong launched the Tet offensive on January 30, 1968.

  • A purse of three thousand drachmas, however, was cast ashore, and now lies covered with seaweed near a dead dolphin, the stench of which is so offensive, that all who pass that way hasten by it as fast as they can.

  • Tom's jokes are offensive.

  • You may think your comment was innocuous, but I found it very offensive.

  • As an American, I find that offensive.

  • Tom is offensive.

  • The word "nigger" is an offensive term.

  • The smell was offensive.

  • Your attitude towards women is offensive.

  • The speaker's comments were highly offensive.

  • I find just the memory of his overly polite patronizing manner really offensive.

Untergeordnete Begriffe

Ar­den­nen­of­fen­si­ve:
Ardennes Counteroffensive
Battle of the Bulge
Charme­of­fen­si­ve:
charm offensive

Of­fen­si­ve übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Offensive. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Offensive. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 766057, 766058, 2198473, 2348955, 10056198, 10219435, 11213436, 6214614, 6213207, 6033338, 3595678, 3126734, 2236796, 752989, 681612, 681611, 681610 & 72024. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR