Was heißt »Ver­häng­nis« auf Englisch?

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

  • fate
  • disaster
  • ruin

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Ihre Neugier ward der Katze zum Verhängnis.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Synonyme

Fluch:
curse
malediction
Gei­ßel:
scourge
whip
Kri­se:
crisis
Mi­se­re:
misery
plight
Miss­stand:
deficiency
Schick­sals­schlag:
blow
blow of fate
stroke
stroke of fate
stroke of misfortune
Schla­mas­sel:
mess
muddle
shemozzle
Übel:
evil
Un­ge­mach:
adversity
ill
Un­glück:
misfortune
Un­heil:
calamity
Ver­der­ben:
spoilage

Antonyme

Glücks­fall:
fluke
stroke of luck
Glücks­sträh­ne:
lucky streak
run of luck

Englische Beispielsätze

  • He followed an impulse not to board the ship, and thus escaped the disaster.

  • "Don't trust Tom!" warned John. "He'll ruin us all with his lies and deceit!"

  • The day, which began with them sharing an idyllic breakfast on the sun-drenched terrace, was to end in disaster.

  • The prime minister's speech was a disaster.

  • It was her fate that she would never see the city of her birth again.

  • His first driving lesson was a disaster.

  • Take those football boots off, now, otherwise the studs will ruin the parquet flooring!

  • He abandoned me to my fate.

  • Breakfast at the hotel was a disaster.

  • If you invite them, they will ruin the party.

  • He rushed headlong to his ruin.

  • Everyone is a blacksmith of their own fate.

  • Don't tempt fate!

  • Kenya is under siege by swarms of maturing desert locusts that threaten to ruin farmers’ crops and pastures.

  • Her fate was to never see her city of birth again.

  • Stubbornness can ruin a friendship.

  • Marrying Tom was the biggest mistake of my life. I wish I had stayed in bed all that time ago, as I had been planning to; then I never would have met him, I never would have fallen in love with him, and he never would have been able to ruin my life.

  • All of a sudden, Bello broke loose from his lead, bolted towards the river and leapt in. Only now do we realise the reason for this unexpected behaviour lay in the fate of a drowning fawn which the dog pulled up on the bank and thus rescued.

  • Your fate is sealed.

  • Their fate seems to be sealed.

Verhängnis übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Verhängnis. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: Verhängnis. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 3787011, 11559374, 11373124, 11301865, 11256067, 11227413, 11193491, 10936267, 10759795, 10681842, 10203042, 10191280, 9828814, 9788212, 9678816, 9548549, 9211682, 8933076, 8565307, 8137186 & 8137185. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR