Was heißt »ach­tern« auf Englisch?

Das Adverb »ach­tern« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • abaft
  • aft
  • astern
  • backward
  • backwards
  • rearward
  • rearwards

Synonyme

hin­ten:
at the back
at the end

Englische Beispielsätze

  • It's a big step backward.

  • He knows New York backwards and forwards.

  • The checker and the king can both forward and backward capture one or more pieces.

  • Starboard is the right-hand side of a ship as seen from aft to fore. The left-hand side is port.

  • I know all that backwards!

  • The word "bitch" literally means a female dog. Its use in casual conversation to apply to a woman is demeaning, crude and insulting, and marks the person who uses this descriptor to be backwards and, potentially, a sexual harasser.

  • "Have you learnt the poem off by heart?" "Yep, I can recite it forwards and backwards."

  • Your helmet is on backwards.

  • You have your T-shirt on backwards.

  • Tom slapped his forehead so hard that he was knocked backwards.

  • She bent over backwards to please him.

  • Tom bent over backwards to please Mary.

  • You have your hat on backwards.

  • Muhammad Ali ran four to eight miles a day backwards.

  • Forwards always, backwards never.

  • Alyssa can pronounce any word backwards.

  • Tom pushed Mary backwards.

  • Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

  • It's not possible to travel backward in time.

  • Tom has his sweater on backwards.

Achtern übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: achtern. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: achtern. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11223944, 10682218, 10341227, 10329949, 10268632, 10219082, 9435453, 9054943, 8555792, 7367791, 7264760, 7264758, 6951866, 6622140, 6137888, 5767563, 5745168, 4357397, 3957503 & 3826400. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR