Was heißt »schief­lie­gen« auf Englisch?

Das Verb schief­lie­gen (auch: schief lie­gen) lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • be wrong
  • be off the mark

Synonyme

da­ne­ben­lie­gen:
of the mark
off base
wide of the mark

Antonyme

recht ha­ben:
be right

Englische Beispielsätze

  • Don't be wrong.

  • The majority can be wrong even more often than one individual.

  • Did it ever occur to you that you might be wrong?

  • Professors can also be wrong.

  • Even professors can be wrong.

  • Hasn't it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?

  • Has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?

  • Has it never occurred to you that you might be wrong?

  • Honestly, I'd rather be wrong.

  • Honestly, I would rather be wrong.

  • Of course, I could be wrong.

  • Tom's answer to Exercise 3 in the examination was correct but, believing it to be wrong, he crossed it out, which meant that it couldn't be accepted and he received no marks for it.

  • I can be wrong, too.

  • Experts may be wrong.

  • I think Tom is from Australia, but I may be wrong.

  • Anyone who tells you that an English sentence is ungrammatical is almost certain to be wrong.

  • Dad, I beg you to admit for once that you may be wrong!

  • Tom will be wrong.

  • Did you consider that you might be wrong?

  • In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Schief­lie­gen übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: schiefliegen. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: schiefliegen. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 11540162, 11084757, 11053725, 10699635, 10699633, 10575241, 10575240, 10575239, 10133398, 10133397, 9670985, 9116117, 8825090, 8816889, 8617955, 8481102, 8351124, 7926036, 6566340 & 6287091. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR