Was heißt »eins­tig« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

In der einstigen barocken Residenz des Abtes ist nun das Museum für Stadtgeschichte beheimatet.

The former baroque residence of the abbot now houses the town history museum.

Das einstige Nobelrestaurant ist zu einer Kaschemme verkommen.

The fancy restaurant has become a dive.

Kioto war die einstige Hauptstadt Japans.

Kyoto was the former capital of Japan.

Die gesamte Insel war eine von frostigen Stürmen gepeitschte Eiswüste und lediglich weißgebleichte Skelette bezeugten einstiges Leben.

The whole island was a wasteland of ice, whipped by freezing storms, and bleached skeletons were the only signs of the life that had once been there.

Als die außerirdischen Kolonisten die Erde erreichten, war von dem einstigen menschlichen Leben schon keine sichtbare Spur mehr vorhanden.

When extraterrestrial colonists reached Earth, there was no visible trace of human life left.

Tom stellte die einstige Pracht des Gartens wieder her.

Tom restored the garden to its former glory.

Synonyme

alt:

old

da­ma­lig:

at that time

at the time

then

ehe­ma­lig:

exformer

one-time

quondam

ge­we­sen:

has-been

vor­ma­lig:

earlier

erstwhile

has-been

previous

pristine

quondam

Antonyme

ge­gen­wär­tig:

actual

current

present

Englische Beispielsätze

• The war changed almost everything. Little remained of the city's former beauty.

• The former legendary Haçienda nightclub in Manchester is now a block of flats.

• He's a former pupil of mine.

• I met one of my former students in London.

• Football manager and former player Iain Dowie coined the word 'bouncebackability'.

• The French currency was the franc, and its symbol "F". Though no longer in use in France, the franc is still used in former French colonies, such as Guinea.

• A museum was set up in the former barracks.

• You shouldn't confuse your boozer with a bog, even though the former has the latter, and sometimes looks and smells like one.

• You shouldn't confuse your local with a loo, even though the former has the latter, and sometimes looks and smells like one.

• I bumped into one of my former students in London.

• The robot is affectionately known to the workers as Tom, named after the former colleague of theirs whom it replaced.

• Practice is just as important as theory, but we tend to overrate the latter and overlook the former.

• Both meanings are possible, but the former is the more likely.

• Who was the former prosecutor?

• J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the latter in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

• Merkel was Germany’s first female chancellor and its first leader to have been raised in the former East Germany.

• I prefer Noh to Kabuki because I find the former to be more elegant than the latter.

• For two whole years a team of town planners, local business people and residents worked on a blueprint for the town, a former centre of car production.

• The police suspect that a disgruntled former employee was the one who set the factory on fire.

• A former flatmate would call French toast eggy bread.