Was heißt »ent­ge­gen­tre­ten« auf Englisch?

Das Verb »ent­ge­gen­tre­ten« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • walk up
  • walk towards
  • encounter
  • come across
  • oppose
  • counter

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Ich bin Tom entgegengetreten.

I confronted Tom.

Man dürfe jetzt nicht gleichgültig sein, sagte der Papst, denn die ganze Welt leide und müsse der Pandemie einig entgegentreten.

This is not a time for indifference, the pope said, because the whole world is suffering and needs to be united in facing the pandemic.

Synonyme

ab­hal­ten:
detain
deteni
prevent
ab­weh­ren:
beat back
defend
fend off
an­ge­hen:
come on
auf­hal­ten:
balk
block
hinder
stop
auf­räu­men:
clean up
tidy up
blo­ckie­ren:
barricade
block
interlock
obstruct
hem­men:
block
dam
hamper
hin­dern:
prevent
mau­ern:
lay bricks
sper­ren:
block
tref­fen:
affect
hit
meet
wi­der­fah­ren:
befall (to befall)
happen (to happen)
occur (to occur)

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The last time Dave saw Danielle was one summer evening through the window of a chip shop: she was inside, squinting at the price list on the wall behind the counter, and he was in the street on his way to the pub with Teresa, his new girlfriend.

  • I haven't come across that expression for a long time.

  • The ticket machine is out of order. We'll have to queue up at the counter.

  • Tom lost possession, and the opposition launched a counter-attack.

  • He left the beef out on the counter to thaw.

  • Tom filled the shopping trolley with sweets while his mother stood at the meat counter.

  • Isn't it just lovely when you come across a word and there are like thirty different definitions for it and you have to figure out which one it is?

  • He was working behind the counter.

  • He had to join the queue for the ticket counter.

  • He had to queue for the ticket counter.

  • He had to join the queue at the ticket counter.

  • He had to queue up at the ticket counter.

  • From the street you come into a big station concourse where the counters are.

  • From the street you'll come into a big railway station concourse where the ticket office counters are.

  • Let me answer that question with a counter-question: Who cares?

  • Tom was standing behind the counter.

  • Where can I find the American Airlines counter?

  • Where's the information counter?

  • Sami was standing behind the counter.

  • That counter there.

Entgegentreten übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: entgegentreten. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: entgegentreten. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 6619593, 8684204, 11406460, 10875646, 10654897, 10314443, 10017770, 9977448, 9696599, 9306428, 8946929, 8946927, 8946925, 8946923, 8883930, 8883929, 8860292, 8123380, 7810309, 7713155, 7191795 & 6190905. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR