Was heißt »jahr­hun­der­te­alt« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv jahr­hun­der­te­alt lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • centuries-old
  • century (centuries)

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Im Park des Gutshofes stehen jahrhundertealte Bäume. Einer davon droht nun zur Gefahr zu werden.

There are trees in the grounds of the estate which are hundreds of years old. One of them is now threatening to become a hazard.

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Islam arrived in Suriname in the late nineteenth century.

  • The Etruscan language and culture disappeared rapidly during the 1st century B.C.

  • The United States faced a Bubonic plague epidemic at the beginning of the twentieth century.

  • The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

  • For centuries, foreign language teaching focused on reading and writing.

  • In the Sailendra dynasty, which arose in the eighth century in central Java, Mahayana Buddhism blossomed, and Buddhist temples like Borobudur were built.

  • The date today is 11.12.13. This won't happen again this century.

  • The first American colonists arrived in the 17th century.

  • Christianity came to Armenia at the beginning of the first century and became an official religion in the year 301.

  • Providing energy to the poor without destroying the planet any further is this century's biggest challenge.

  • Phrenology was very popular in the 19th century, but nowadays most consider it to be nothing more than a curious pseudoscience.

  • The Galilean moons are the four moons of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo Galilei in the 17th century.

  • The piano was invented in the 18th century by Bartolomeo Cristofori.

  • By the 23rd century, human clones with genetic modifications, such as a different hair colour, became more common.

  • The 21st century composition was so discordant that it felt as though the performer was murdering the Steinway grand piano.

  • Through the centuries, teleportation accelerated space exploration, even beyond the Solar System.

  • The church was built in the fifteenth century.

  • My sister has traced our family tree back to the 16th century.

  • My grandparents were born in the last century.

  • One hundred years is called a century.

Jahr­hun­der­te­alt übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: jahrhundertealt. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2024, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 7285987, 2535184, 2489037, 2458017, 2456626, 2746172, 2776517, 2922188, 2268128, 2260595, 2143028, 2069235, 3138075, 3189206, 1911318, 3287805, 3314063, 1876228, 3436391, 3436403 & 1697713. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR