Was heißt »fau­len­zen« auf Englisch?

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

  • idle
  • laze
  • lounge
  • air the heels

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es ist höchste Zeit, dass du aufhörst zu faulenzen und dich an die Arbeit machst.

It is about time you stopped being so idle and did some work.

Mein Sohn faulenzt nur.

My son is just idling.

Hör auf zu faulenzen und such dir eine Beschäftigung.

Stop being lazy and find something to do.

Er wurde gefeuert, weil er bei der Arbeit faulenzte.

He got fired for slacking off at work.

He was sacked for being lazy at work.

Papa ist nicht krank. Er will bestimmt nur einmal faulenzen.

Dad isn't sick or anything like that. I'm sure he just wants to laze around.

Tom faulenzte den ganzen Tag am Strand.

Tom spent the day lazing on the beach.

Maria faulenzte den ganzen Tag am Strand.

Mary spent the day lazing on the beach.

Tom faulenzte den ganzen Nachmittag am Strand.

Tom spent the afternoon lazing on the beach.

Synonyme

ab­hän­gen:
correlate
depend
ab­schal­ten:
turn off
chil­len:
chill

Antonyme

ar­bei­ten:
employ (be employed)
function
warp
work
flei­ßig:
assiduous
diligent
hardworking
industrious
keen
studious

Englische Beispielsätze

  • We do not live for idle amusement.

  • The devil finds work for idle hands.

  • She looks down on people who are idle.

  • He was dismissed of the grounds that he was idle.

  • He is ashamed of having been idle in his youth.

  • Do not idle away your youth or you will regret it later.

  • I spent an idle week there.

  • I prefer working hard to just sitting idle.

  • To my mind, the worst part of air travel is the hanging around in airport lounges.

  • That's idle talk.

  • It's wasteful to leave the land lying idle.

  • There can be no joy in that idle life.

  • It's no crime to just idle the whole day once in a while.

  • Tom is not an idle boy any longer.

  • I regret having been idle in my school days.

  • It is absurd to idle away the student life.

  • The machines are idle now.

  • You are idle to the bone.

  • The factory has been lying idle for a year.

  • They only wrote idle chatter about her in the newspaper.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: faulenzen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: faulenzen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 631514, 824809, 1008196, 1516931, 6695922, 7866566, 7866568, 7866571, 841860, 444500, 315653, 301176, 299136, 272002, 256387, 254945, 250870, 2267923, 57673, 41317, 40515, 37200, 21348, 21342, 20483, 9593, 2761530 & 3368805. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR