Was heißt »letz­te­re« auf Englisch?

Das Adjektiv »letz­te­re« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • latter

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Praxis ist ebenso wichtig wie Theorie, aber wir tendieren dazu, letztere zu überhöhen und erstere zu übersehen.

Practice is just as important as theory, but we tend to overrate the latter and overlook the former.

Englische Beispielsätze

  • You shouldn't confuse your boozer with a bog, even though the former has the latter, and sometimes looks and smells like one.

  • You shouldn't confuse your local with a loo, even though the former has the latter, and sometimes looks and smells like one.

  • J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the latter in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.

  • I prefer Noh to Kabuki because I find the former to be more elegant than the latter.

  • If I were asked to choose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, choose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

  • The difference between a standalone sentence and a sentence in the middle of an essay is that the latter has context.

  • Let's hope for the latter.

  • The latter half of the film was interesting.

  • Section 214, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who kidnaps a person from another one, must deliver the latter a receipt, to that effect.

  • A ronin may not have the status of a daimyo, but he has the freedom that the latter may never have.

  • Of soccer and rugby, I prefer the latter.

  • Fish and meat are both nourishing, but the latter is more expensive than the former.

Letztere übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: letztere. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 9753542, 11149860, 11149858, 10610286, 10253656, 5860159, 5313637, 3411328, 2286356, 1081123, 597268, 54122 & 19362. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR