Was heißt »da­ma­lig« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv da­ma­lig lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • at that time
  • at the time
  • former
  • then

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Die Spezialeffekte dieses Films waren in der damaligen Zeit spektakulär.

That movie's special effects were spectacular at the time.

Merkel kam im westdeutschen Hamburg auf die Welt; als sie drei Monate alt war, ging es aber für sie in die damalige DDR, nachdem ihr Vater Pastor einer Kirche bei Templin, einer ruhigen, ländlichen Stadt 90 km nördlich von Berlin, geworden war.

Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany, but moved to what was then East Germany when she was three months old after her father became pastor at a church near Templin, a quiet town in the countryside 90 kilometers north of Berlin.

Für die damalige Zeit waren die Spezialeffekte dieses Films phänomenal. Noch heute können sie sich sehen lassen.

For the time, the special effects in this film were phenomenal. They still stand up well today.

Im Jahre 2009 erzählte die damalige Präsidentengattin Michelle Obama Schulkindern, die zu Besuch waren, dass Präsident Barack Obama und sie nachts manchmal seltsame Geräusche auf dem Flur hörten.

In 2009, then-first lady Michelle Obama told visiting school children that she and President Barack Obama sometimes heard strange noises in the hallway at night.

Synonyme

alt:
old
ehe­ma­lig:
exformer
one-time
quondam
frü­her:
early
ge­we­sen:
has-been
vor­ma­lig:
earlier
erstwhile
has-been
previous
pristine
quondam

Antonyme

ak­tu­ell:
current
ge­gen­wär­tig:
actual
current
present
heu­tig:
present-day
today’s
zu­künf­tig:
from here on
future
hereafter
in the future
next time
prospective
to-be

Englische Beispielsätze

  • That's just how things were back then.

  • I explained to him why he was starting to get on my nerves, and since then he hasn't talked to me.

  • You seem like a good person, so I don't want to fire you, but if that's what it takes to save the company, then that's what I'll do.

  • Harrison was the oldest man ever elected president at the time.

  • Please step up here, then sit on this table.

  • Tom waited patiently for three hours, and then gave up.

  • "The cake's in the kitchen." "Not any more." "Where is it, then?" Tom rubbed his tummy, grinning.

  • If you're not talented then at least be interesting!

  • If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

  • A lot of time has passed since then.

  • You have to not understand life, then it's going to turn into a party.

  • It's the party's job, even with an absolute majority, to think further ahead than the government can act. If the government's satisfied with the party, then the party hasn't thought far enough.

  • "Mary's already gone down into the shop." "What time does she open up?" "8.30. The first customers are already standing outside by then."

  • Back then, you had to buy a platform ticket if you wanted to accompany someone to the train.

  • Now and then, he would bring a kipper or two home from the smokehouse.

  • A former flatmate would call French toast eggy bread.

  • Jupiter will appear first and then Saturn.

  • Tom was away from home at that time.

  • I feel like I'm improving, and then I get criticism and my self-confidence comes tumbling back down.

  • I accelerated my car and then I overtook them.

Da­ma­lig übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: damalig. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: damalig. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 9209110, 10322771, 12193110, 12334544, 9798481, 9819333, 9694181, 9678773, 9851500, 9925955, 9926279, 9589166, 9947581, 9949270, 9547887, 9547859, 9972098, 9530244, 9997062, 9518030, 9517746, 10007698, 10008619 & 9499081. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR