Was heißt »Vor­ge­setz­ter« auf Englisch?

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

  • boss
  • superior

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Manchmal benimmt er sich, als wäre er mein Vorgesetzter.

Sometimes he acts as if he were my boss.

Mein Vorgesetzter lässt mich dies tun, daher habe ich es nicht eilig, es zu Ende zu bringen.

My supervisor is making me do this so I'm in no hurry to finish.

Er ist nicht mein Vorgesetzter.

He's not my superior.

Tom Jackson ist mein Vorgesetzter.

Tom Jackson is my boss.

Weibliche Wortform

Synonyme

Chef:
manager
Lei­ter:
director
head
leader

Antonyme

Un­ter­ge­be­ner:
subordinate
underling

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I'm telling you, the boss'll eat you whole if you go in there now. He's just sacked Tom after giving him a rollicking.

  • She is my boss and also my best friend.

  • The rational parametrisation of a circle is almost always far superior to the usual parametrisation in terms of cosine and sine.

  • My boss drinks coffee by the bucketful.

  • My boss drinks gallons of coffee.

  • The boss has just given my holiday plans the nod.

  • The new boss doesn't mess about. Whoever doesn't toe the line gets sacked.

  • Mr Takahashi was my boss.

  • Are you the new boss?

  • His boss was quite impressed.

  • We have a very good boss.

  • Tom told his boss that he thought that Mary should be fired.

  • He's angry with his boss.

  • The information storage capacity of DNA is many times superior to that of the most advanced silicon chips.

  • Is that your boss by the window?

  • Is that your boss at the window?

  • Tom requested a pay rise from his boss, but he turned him down.

  • Tom's request to his boss for a pay rise was rejected.

  • Remember when Tom was our boss? I'm sure glad he's gone now.

  • Tom, going above Mary's head, appointed her worst enemy as her superior. There was almost nothing left for her to do but to hand in her notice.

Vor­ge­setz­ter übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: Vorgesetzter. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: Vorgesetzter. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1082212, 2532593, 7525245, 11810971, 11593508, 11406503, 11185993, 11093891, 11090620, 11045076, 11013628, 10965573, 10761646, 10734145, 10716655, 10592725, 10569535, 10555747, 10545716, 10540289, 10525376, 10525375, 10504322 & 10336726. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR