Was heißt »blit­zen« auf Englisch?

Das Verb blit­zen lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • there's lightning
  • flash

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es blitzte gerade.

There's lighting right now.

Es blitzt und donnert.

There's thunder and lightning.

Es blitzt bereits in der Nähe; bald wird es regnen.

The lightning is already nearby; soon it will rain.

Wenn es nicht blitzt, kommt auch kein Donner.

If there's no lightning, there'll be no thunder either.

Es hat geblitzt.

There was lightning.

Es blitzte.

The lightning flashed.

Lightning flashed.

Warum blitzt der Blitz und donnert der Donner?

Why does lightning flash and thunder rumble?

Ich bin gestern geblitzt worden.

Yesterday, I was caught speeding.

Yesterday, I got clocked by a speed trap.

Tom ist zu schnell gefahren und wurde geblitzt.

Tom was speeding and was clocked by a speed camera.

Dass es blitzt, bevor es donnert, liegt daran, dass sich das Licht schneller bewegt als der Schall.

It's because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.

Tom ist geblitzt worden.

Tom got caught in a speed trap.

Sie schrie, als es blitzte.

She screamed at the flash of lightning.

Synonyme

fun­keln:
glitter
sparkle
twinkle
glän­zen:
glare
glitter
shine

Englische Beispielsätze

  • He left, quick as a flash, without saying where he was going.

  • The camera's flash takes two batteries.

  • She was out of the room in a flash.

  • She had left the room in a flash.

  • He finished it quick as a flash.

  • The flash of lightning was almost instantly followed by a burst of thunder, for the storm-cloud was very near the castle.

  • Suddenly I sensed, how in a flash I started to get it.

  • A man died after taking a selfie with a hibernating bear. It seems that the bear was awakened by the camera's flash.

  • The flash wasn't working, so he couldn't take a picture in the dark.

  • She did her homework in a flash.

  • Did you flash your lights?

  • At this moment, all his past life seemed to flash across his mind.

  • Modern music boxes accept even USB flash drives now.

  • The bomb exploded with a blinding flash.

  • It happened in a flash.

  • The boat sank in a flash.

  • The flash of lightning precedes the sound of thunder.

  • The dog hid under the bed whenever lightning flashed.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: blitzen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: blitzen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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