Was heißt »in­mit­ten« auf Englisch?

Die Präposition in­mit­ten lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • in the middle of
  • in the midst of

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Der Turm stand inmitten der Ruinen.

The tower stood amid the ruins.

Es ist schade, dass einige Menschen selbst inmitten von Überfluss verhungern.

It is a pity that some people starve to death even in the midst of plenty.

Das Haus lag inmitten von Getreidefeldern.

The house was surrounded by cornfields.

Marias Bilder zeigen oft Figuren inmitten eines dichten Nebels.

Mary's pictures often show figures shrouded in a heavy mist.

Es war einmal ein altes Schloss, das stand inmitten eines tiefen, düsteren Waldes, und in dem Schloss lebte eine alte Fee.

There was once an old castle, that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy.

Deren Haus lag inmitten einer kleinen Baumgruppe.

Their house lay amid a small stand of trees.

Es war sonderbar, inmitten so vieler trauriger und erschöpfter Gesichter eines zu sehen, das voller Kraft und Entschlossenheit war. Dieser Anblick glich mir einem Feuer in einem Schneesturm.

It was strange among so many sad and weary faces to see one which was full of energy and resolution. The sight of it was to me like a fire in a snow-storm.

Sie stand inmitten der Schlossruine.

She was standing amid the ruins of the castle.

Ein Lehrer sitzt inmitten der Schüler.

A teacher is sitting among the pupils.

Synonyme

zwi­schen:
among
between

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I came to the solution in the middle of the night.

  • She phoned in the middle of the night.

  • She rang in the middle of the night.

  • He rang in the middle of the night.

  • He phoned in the middle of the night.

  • Tom lives in a moss-covered hut in the middle of the woods.

  • There was a stationary lorry in the middle of the road.

  • A lorry was standing in the middle of the road.

  • I'm in the middle of revising for my exams.

  • I'm in the middle of exam revision.

  • The road in those days wasn't so wide, it wasn't tarmacked, and there were no cars; us kids always walked in the middle of it.

  • Hundreds of motorists stopped in the middle of the road to look at a supposed UFO. It was Tom flying by in a saucer-shaped hot-air balloon to play an April Fool's joke.

  • I walked out in the middle of it. Let's go and have a cuppa.

  • The other day I ran out of petrol in the middle of a busy motorway.

  • So she sent two very fierce serpents; these in the middle of the night went into Alcmena's bedroom, where he slept with his brother Hercules.

  • She then dispatched two very fierce serpents, which came in the middle of the night to the room of Alcmena, where Hercules and his brother were sleeping.

  • He lives in the middle of the Ruhr area.

  • There's a fountain in the middle of the marketplace.

  • He stopped in the middle of the road.

  • Then, in the middle of the semester, you realize it's so hard to keep up.

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