Was heißt »schief­lau­fen« auf Englisch?

Das Verb schief­lau­fen (ver­altet: schief laufen) lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • go wrong

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Alles ist schiefgelaufen.

Everything's gone wrong.

It all went wrong.

Irgendwas muss schiefgelaufen sein.

Something must have gone wrong.

Something must've gone wrong.

Was ist schiefgelaufen beim europäischen Projekt?

What has gone wrong with the European project?

Was, wenn etwas schiefgelaufen ist?

What if something went wrong?

Ich glaube, ich weiß, was schiefgelaufen ist.

I think I understand what went wrong.

Ich weiß nicht, was schiefgelaufen ist.

I don't know what went wrong.

Es ist alles total schiefgelaufen.

Things went terribly wrong.

Things went totally pear-shaped.

Für Tom ist alles schrecklich schiefgelaufen.

Everything went horribly wrong for Tom.

Haben Sie schon herausgefunden, was schiefgelaufen ist?

Have you figured out what went wrong?

Was ist hier schiefgelaufen?

What went wrong here?

Was ist da schiefgelaufen?

What went wrong?

Irgendwas ist furchtbar schiefgelaufen.

Something went horribly wrong.

Es ist etwas schiefgelaufen.

Something went wrong.

Synonyme

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Everything in the house seemed to go wrong without a woman to look after it.

  • I thought nothing could go wrong, but I was wrong.

  • I thought nothing could go wrong.

  • Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

  • What can go wrong?

  • "I don't think that's a good idea." "Nonsense! What could possibly go wrong?"

  • There are a lot of things that could go wrong with that.

  • What can go wrong will go wrong.

  • Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

  • Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.

  • If anything can go wrong, it will.

  • Anything that can go wrong, will–at the worst possible moment.

  • Murphy's law states that whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

  • What else can go wrong?

  • Almost everything that could go wrong did.

  • What could go wrong?

  • Whatever can go wrong will go wrong.

  • Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.

  • Many people think that sponge cake is difficult to bake, but if you use enough eggs, nothing can really go wrong.

  • I thought that nothing could go wrong.

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: schieflaufen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: schieflaufen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1287013, 1902279, 2778463, 2972326, 3366964, 3457115, 5436880, 8264518, 8368980, 10067589, 10255697, 11220559, 11855093, 3884586, 3382759, 3382758, 5096434, 2548920, 5509208, 5509209, 5743782, 5743783, 5743788, 5743793, 5743799, 5743808, 1841542, 5986861, 1494575, 1141264, 953264, 932881 & 7173976. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR