Was heißt »mag sein« auf Englisch?

Die Wortverbindung mag sein lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • maybe

Synonyme

mög­lich:
on the cards
possible
potential
viel­leicht:
perhaps
possibly

Sinnverwandte Wörter

even­tu­ell:
contingent
contingently
perhaps
possible

Englische Beispielsätze

  • You're a very small part of a very big world. Only a tiny little point, or maybe even smaller, and yet the world would be empty without you. It's beautiful that you exist.

  • Funnily enough, his peculiar behaviour didn't seem weird to me at all at first; well, maybe it did seem a bit odd.

  • Maybe yes, maybe not.

  • Shall we maybe go somewhere tonight?

  • Oddly enough, his peculiar behaviour didn't seem at all weird to me at first; well, maybe it did seem a bit strange.

  • There's nothing equivalent to "already" in the English version, but maybe it's implicit?

  • I don't know exactly how many visitors there were – more than three hundred, maybe.

  • We won't be seeing Auntie Jo this time round – maybe next time.

  • The strongest piece in chess is called the Queen, maybe because it reminds us of Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, a female warrior whose bravery was immortalized in the Trojan War.

  • "Is he married?" "Maybe, maybe not."

  • You always have ideas, just maybe not good ones.

  • Remember: Spider-Man is not afraid of anyone. Well, maybe just of Slipper-Man.

  • We thought maybe you could help us.

  • Well, maybe Tom wouldn't do it, but I would.

  • "Why is Tom doing that?" "I don't know. To annoy us, maybe?"

  • A Google Translate of the German implies that maybe something like the following would work.

  • Not now; maybe later.

  • Well, maybe I can help you.

  • "How people living in Denmark are called?" – "Denmarkians?" – "No, they are called Danes." – "Well, but maybe not all inhabitants of Denmark are Danes."

  • If you're feeling bad, maybe you should go see a doctor.

Mag sein übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: mag sein. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2024, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: mag sein. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 12194415, 12030249, 11807754, 11222723, 10629891, 10618435, 10555356, 10502063, 10475020, 10187565, 10025261, 9986406, 9639525, 9381546, 9238009, 8950705, 8533341, 8242286, 6277085 & 6229739. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR