Was heißt »be­zie­hungs­wei­se« auf Englisch?

Die Konjunktion be­zie­hungs­wei­se lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • rather

Synonyme

an­dern­falls:
alternatively
or else
otherwise
eher:
earlier
sooner
oder:
else
isn't it
or
re­s­pek­ti­ve:
respectively
sonst:
usually

Englische Beispielsätze

  • He said he'd rather go home.

  • There is nowhere on earth I would rather be.

  • There's nowhere else I'd rather be.

  • There's nowhere on earth I'd rather be.

  • There's nowhere on earth that I'd rather be.

  • Mary was rather impressed.

  • Tom was rather impressed.

  • She was rather impressed.

  • He was rather impressed.

  • I'm rather impressed.

  • I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

  • Tom knows that Mary would rather not do that.

  • I'd rather go out than stay at home.

  • Would you rather be doing something else?

  • She got worse rather than better as she grew older.

  • I'd rather walk than wait for the next bus.

  • I prefer to take the train rather than the bus.

  • He would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.

  • I'd rather stay at home than go to the movies.

  • Instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: beziehungsweise. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: beziehungsweise. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 7402052, 7460950, 7460951, 7480590, 7480591, 7360739, 7360738, 7360737, 7360736, 7360735, 7290271, 7176576, 7117050, 7735032, 7740877, 7785756, 7800731, 7049317, 7803395 & 7813207. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR