Was heißt »ku­ri­os« auf Englisch?

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

  • curious

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Es scheint nicht kurios zu sein, aber irgendwie ist es doch kurios ...

It doesn't seem strange, but for some reason it feels strange...

Das ist eine kuriose Frage, die ich noch nie gehört habe.

That's a funny sort of question. I've never heard that one before.

Bei Tatoeba gibt es jede Menge grammatisch richtiger, doch kurioser Sätze, die ohne Kontext kaum verständlich sind.

On Tatoeba, there are a lot of grammatically correct but strange sentences, hardly comprehensible out of context.

Das ist kurios! Ich soll etwas Gescheites schreiben und mir fällt nichts Gescheites ein.

This is curious! I'm supposed to write something clever, but nothing clever occurs to me.

Synonyme

ab­son­der­lich:
odd
strange
weird
ab­s­t­rus:
abstruse
ab­we­gig:
absurd
an­ders:
different
distinct
other
an­o­mal:
anomalous
aty­pisch:
atypical
be­fremd­lich:
disconcerting
disturbing
bi­zarr:
bizarre
weird
drol­lig:
droll
ei­gen:
own
ei­gen­ar­tig:
characteristic
peculiar
strange
weird
exo­tisch:
exotic
ko­misch:
comic
merk­wür­dig:
remarkable
strange
när­risch:
idiotic
omi­nös:
ominous
pa­ra­dox:
paradoxical
schräg:
aslant
aslope
athwart
oblique
obliquely
skew
slant
selt­sam:
bizarre
eerie
seldsome
strange
uncanny
weird
skur­ril:
droll
odd
peculiar
whimsical
son­der­bar:
peculiar
strange
son­der­lich:
espacial
particular
special
spa­ßig:
funny
un­ge­wöhn­lich:
exceptionally
unusual
unwontedly
un­üb­lich:
unusual
ver­schro­ben:
eccentric
strange
wry
wun­der­lich:
whimsical
wun­der­sam:
wondrous

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The young are more curious about the big wide world than the old.

  • Geese are curious by nature.

  • Geese are naturally curious.

  • I'm just as curious as you are.

  • I'm just as curious as you.

  • "I detect a slight accent. Are you French?" asked Tom, curious. "Belgian," Marie-Emmanuelle replied.

  • Don't get old no matter how long you live. Never stop standing like a curious child before the great miracle into which we are born.

  • Cats are curious creatures by nature.

  • Don't apologize for being curious.

  • Is there something you're curious about but don't know much about?

  • He was curious about why she had done it.

  • He was curious about why she had done that.

  • Yanni is just curious.

  • Tom was very curious.

  • He is curious.

  • She is curious.

  • She was curious.

  • He's curious.

  • It's normal to be curious about what others think of you.

  • I'm curious as to who will win out of you all.

Ku­ri­os übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: kurios. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: kurios. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 730994, 1231337, 4884550, 5803781, 11661875, 11510428, 11510427, 11217733, 11217732, 10573319, 10523082, 10244395, 10193144, 10127499, 10104726, 10104725, 10023463, 8916341, 8910224, 8910223, 8651724, 8476626, 8187575 & 8160761. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR