Was heißt »er­sin­nen« auf Englisch?

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

  • imagine
  • invent

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Er ersann einen neuen Streich wider seinen Nachbarn.

He thought up a new prank to play on his neighbour.

Wir müssen eine Möglichkeit ersinnen, wie wir lebend hier herauskommen.

We have to figure out a way to get out of here alive.

Ich versuche, einen anderen Plan zu ersinnen.

I'm trying to think of another plan.

Sie ersann eine gute Lösung.

She came up with a good solution.

Er ersann eine unerwartete Methode zur Bewältigung des Problems.

He found an unexpected way to deal with the problem.

Schöne Worte. Hast du die selbst ersonnen?

Nice words. Did you come up with them yourself?

Er braucht Zeit, um einen Plan zu ersinnen.

He needs time to come up with a plan.

Tom ersann einen listigen und überaus kleinlichen Plan, um sich an Maria zu rächen.

Tom devised a cunning and incredibly petty plan to get back at Mary.

Tom hat einen neuen Plan ersonnen.

Tom has come up with a new plan.

Man ersann eine List, wie er aus dem Versteck zu locken sei.

A plan was devised to coax him out of hiding.

Synonyme

aus­ar­bei­ten:
complete
draw up
work out
aus­brü­ten:
brood
hatch
aus­den­ken:
come up with
think up
aus­he­cken:
cook up
hatch
er­ar­bei­ten:
achieve
acquire
compile
er­den­ken:
devise
excogitate
think up
er­dich­ten:
make up
er­lü­gen:
fabricate
heu­cheln:
feign
pretend
kon­zi­pie­ren:
design
plan
tür­ken:
deceive
ver­bre­chen:
break
do
offend
vor­ge­ben:
pretend
vor­täu­schen:
affect
pretend

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Africa is far bigger than you imagine.

  • What did Nikola Tesla invent?

  • How did people in the year 1900 imagine the year 2000?

  • This sentence might be fine as a translation, but, with the best will in the world, I can't imagine that a native speaker would say it like that.

  • I can well imagine that.

  • I can well imagine.

  • We imagine immediately what is the worst.

  • I imagine a lot of beautiful things.

  • She's not as you imagine her to be.

  • She's not how you imagine her.

  • She's not as you imagine her.

  • She's not as you imagine.

  • The kids can't imagine that Granny was young once.

  • The kids can't imagine that Nan was young once.

  • I've tried to imagine life on the moon.

  • What do you imagine life will be like in the year 2121?

  • "Tom seems in a good mood today." "Tom? That's hard to imagine." "Well, he is. He just said hello to me and smiled."

  • Studying French is easier than you would imagine.

  • I imagine I am a butterfly.

  • Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the peoples imagine a vain thing?

Er­sin­nen übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: ersinnen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: ersinnen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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