Was heißt »er­spä­hen« auf Englisch?

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

  • catch sight of
  • spot
  • espy

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Du hättest Toms Gesichtsausdruck sehen sollen, als er Maria und Johannes beim Küssen erspähte!

You should've seen the look on Tom's face when he saw Mary and John kissing.

Synonyme

ent­de­cken:
descry
discover
se­hen:
look
see
wahr­neh­men:
notice
observe
perceive
realise
realize

Sinnverwandte Wörter

auf­spü­ren:
track down
aus­ma­chen:
put out
switch off
turn off
er­ken­nen:
recognise
recognize
er­mit­teln:
find out
identify
sich­ten:
sight

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I set out early to get the best possible spot.

  • Before moving on, Tom set about putting the spot where he had pitched his tent back the way he had found it. When he had finished, there was no sign that anyone had been camping there.

  • Come on, let's go out in the open and find a secluded spot where we can enjoy this beautiful summer's evening.

  • Can you spot words of Latin origin in this sentence?

  • I stood there rooted to the spot.

  • Haven't you got anything better to do than stand there rooted to the spot?

  • A castle once stood on this spot. However, it was burnt out in a fire and had to be torn down.

  • He converted from the penalty spot.

  • He converted the spot kick.

  • I don't know this spot.

  • To measure faraway galaxies requires a lens so sensitive that it could spot a candle at a distance of 15,000 kilometres.

  • The ball smacked the crossbar, the keeper rooted to the spot.

  • Marcus's prediction was spot on, as the results now show.

  • Marcus was spot on in his prognosis, as the results before us now show.

  • The referee placed the ball on the spot.

  • Everything you wrote in your email is spot on – except the price.

  • Tom's in a spot of bother.

  • St. Wolfgang, situated on Lake Wolfgang, one of Austria's best-known lakes, was once a favourite vacation spot of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

  • The Spanish police is using helicopters to spot groups of people gathering outdoors.

  • I like this spot.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

se­hen:
look
see

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: erspähen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: erspähen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 6631289, 11246216, 11213830, 11137858, 11009365, 10726541, 10648440, 10520322, 10314425, 10314424, 10187399, 10119718, 10073607, 9460803, 9460802, 9435557, 9159405, 8960661, 8955062, 8626212 & 7760587. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR