Was heißt »mü­hen« auf Englisch?

Das Verb »mü­hen« lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • labour
  • work

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Das Tier mühte sich ab, aus dem Käfig zu entkommen.

The animal struggled to get out of the cage.

So sehr ich mich mühe, dass wachend ich sei, kommt nächtens beim Fernsehn der Schlaf stets herbei.

Try as I might, I just cannot stay awake in front of the TV at night.

Ich mühe mich nur, ein guter Nachbar zu sein.

I'm just trying to be neighborly.

Tom mühte sich ab, um mit seinen Klassenkameraden mithalten zu können.

Tom struggled to keep up with his classmates.

Synonyme

ab­mü­hen:
struggle
toil
be­mü­hen:
make an effort
trouble oneself
try
fret­ten:
chafe
gall
han­tie­ren:
be busy with
handle
küm­mern:
look after
take care of
wer­keln:
potter about

Sinnverwandte Wörter

an­stren­gen:
make an effort
try hard
be­treu­en:
take care of
quä­len:
harry
put about
torture
schuf­ten:
work like a horse
ver­sor­gen:
provide
supply

Antonyme

Englische Beispielsätze

  • They work for a multinational company.

  • Many young people will work at the local hotels in the summer.

  • Did you all work together?

  • Today is Sunday. I do not work. I'll stay at home.

  • We only work five days.

  • My aunt used to work at the post office.

  • He was sacked for being lazy at work.

  • Building work on an underground rail system has begun in my city.

  • I work at the cinema.

  • You'll work in groups.

  • Why do you smell of women's perfume? Have you really come from work, or were you somewhere else?

  • The hope is to work out a perfect plan.

  • Everyone at work is now being issued with a mask.

  • I want to do a bit more work.

  • I want to work a bit more.

  • Why have you come to work when you're ill?

  • The more I work, the less I sleep.

  • The beautiful displays in the shop windows reveal the work of an expert window dresser.

  • No work is simple.

  • I just don't understand how children work.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

ar­bei­ten:
employ (be employed)
function
warp
küm­mern:
look after
take care of
sor­gen:
care
tend
worry

Untergeordnete Begriffe

ab­mü­hen:
struggle
toil
be­mü­hen:
make an effort
trouble oneself
try

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: mühen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Synonyme] OpenThesaurus-User: mühen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1905840, 2826627, 3404181, 4804862, 11531293, 11523625, 11518452, 11485665, 11485544, 11475836, 11451369, 11419667, 11406676, 11406655, 11396641, 11382782, 11373153, 11359448, 11359447, 11336640, 11311588, 11307736, 11296369 & 11290773. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR