Was heißt »ge­wis­ser­ma­ßen« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Wirklich ist jedes Kind gewissermaßen ein Genie, und jedes Genie gewissermaßen ein Kind.

In fact, every child is in a way a genius, and every genius is in a way a child.

Er ist gewissermaßen ein Seelenverwandter von mir.

Basically he is my soulmate.

Deutschland ist gewissermaßen meine zweite Heimat.

Germany is like my second home.

Als dies vollbracht war, kehrten sie zu ihren Schafen und Ziegen zurück, die, weder weidend noch blökend, sondern gewissermaßen voll Sorge über die Abwesenheit ihrer Hüter, auf dem Boden lagen.

This being accomplished, they returned to their sheep and goats, which they found lying on the ground neither browsing nor bleating but worried, as it were, by the absence of their keepers.

Er hat es gewissermaßen vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär geschafft.

He is what we call a self-made man.

Er hat es in seinem Leben gewissermaßen vom Tellerwäscher zum Millionär geschafft.

His life is a rags to riches story.

Synonyme

fast:

all but

almost

nearly

gleich­sam:

quasi

prak­tisch:

handy

qua­si:

quasi

sort of

virtually

so­zu­sa­gen:

quasi

sort of

to all intents and purposes

wei­test­ge­hend:

mostly

wide

widely

Englische Beispielsätze

• He is faithful, but only to a certain extent, and only now and then.

• That company has a monopoly in the field, so to speak.

• He's a member of the family, so to speak.

• Tom lived in a dream world. Often, as it were, only his body was among us, while his mind was quite somewhere else.

• He is, as it were, a walking dictionary.

• And that's a welcoming sentence, so to speak.

• I wished I could express myself in a way that would be safe, clear, friendly and appropriate to the situation.

• What he's trying to say is quite sensible in a way.

• Those shadows appeared in a way like giant dinosaurs, with a long neck and a very big jaw without teeth.

• My father is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• She is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.

• She is, as it were, a walking speaker.

• He is, so to speak, a walking encyclopedia.

• He is a Japanese Edison, as it were.

• He is, so to speak, a learned fool.

• He is, so to speak, her servant.

• He never loses his curiosity; he is, as it were, an eternal youth.

• He is, so to speak, a fish out of water.

• He is, so to speak, a bookworm.

• He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.