Was heißt »schein­bar« auf Englisch?

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

  • pretended
  • seeming

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Ich wünschte, ich könnte mir mehr aus Noten machen, aber scheinbar habe ich an einem gewissen Punkt in meinem Leben entschieden, dass es nicht mehr so wichtig sei.

I wish I could care more about my grades but it seems that, at a certain point of my life, I decided they wouldn't be so important anymore.

Das ergibt scheinbar keinen Sinn.

This doesn't seem to make sense.

Das Flugzeug hat sich scheinbar in Luft aufgelöst.

The plane appears to have vanished into thin air.

Jau, scheinbar war sogar der Arzt drauf und dran, das Handtuch zu werfen.

Yup, it seems like even the doctor was about to throw in the towel.

Die Sonne zieht scheinbar über den Himmel, weil die Erde um ihre Achse rotiert.

The Sun appears to move across the sky because the Earth rotates on its axis.

Bisweilen geschieht das scheinbar Unmögliche.

Seemingly impossible things sometimes happen.

Es dauerte nicht lang, da hatte Johannes eine Idee. Johannes wusste immer einen Ausweg aus scheinbar ausweglosen Lagen.

It was not long before John had an idea. John always knew a way out of seemingly hopeless situations.

Die scheinbar edlen Recken stellten sich als schurkische Raubritter heraus.

The seemingly noble knights turned out to be rotten robber barons.

Wenn sich Saturn und Jupiter, die beiden größten Planeten des Sonnensystems, scheinbar am Himmel treffen, spricht man von einer „großen Konjunktion“.

When Saturn and Jupiter, the two largest planets in the solar system, appear to meet in the sky, they call it a “great” conjunction.

Die Wände bestehen scheinbar aus massiven Steinquadern, sind aber in Wirklichkeit dünn wie Papier.

The walls appear to be made of solid blocks of stone, but are in fact paper-thin.

Trotz scheinbar unüberwindbarer Schwierigkeiten gelang es dem Verein, den Abstieg abzuwenden.

Against seemingly insurmountable odds, the club avoided relegation.

Tom wusste scheinbar nicht, was er sagen soll.

Tom didn't seem to know what to say.

Synonyme

an­geb­lich:
alleged
putative
supposedly
ober­fläch­lich:
glib
superficial
of­fen­kun­dig:
apparent
obvious
so­ge­nannt:
so-called
ver­meint­lich:
alleged
putative
so supposed
wrongly supposed
vir­tu­ell:
virtual
vor­der­grün­dig:
obvious
superficial

Antonyme

an­schei­nend:
apparently
of­fen­bar:
apparent
apparently
evidently
manifest
obvious
obviously
of­fen­sicht­lich:
apparent
apparently
un­schein­bar:
nondescript

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I pretended to be listening.

  • Have you ever pretended to be sick when you weren't?

  • I pretended to be sleeping.

  • Tom pretended not to know what had happened.

  • Mary pretended to be ill so that she wouldn't have to go to school.

  • They pretended they didn't see it.

  • They pretended that they didn't see it.

  • They pretended they were still asleep.

  • He pretended he was asleep.

  • He pretended that he was sick.

  • She pretended she didn't know me.

  • She pretended she was still asleep.

  • She pretended that she was a doctor.

  • He pretended that he was a doctor.

  • Mary pretended she had a gun.

  • Mary pretended that she was a doctor.

  • She pretended that she didn't see him.

  • Tom pretended he hadn't heard what Mary had said about him.

  • Tom pretended he hadn't heard.

  • Tom and his friends pretended to be Australian while barhopping to meet girls.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: scheinbar. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2024, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: scheinbar. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
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