Was heißt »schlecht­hin« auf Englisch?

Das Adverb schlecht­hin lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • plainly
  • par excellence
  • per se

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Nur eines ist schlechthin durch sich selbst: Gott, und Gott ist nicht der tote Begriff, den wir soeben aussprachen, sondern er ist in sich selbst lauter Leben.

There is but One who is absolutely by and through himself, – namely, God; and God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Synonyme

ab­so­lut:
absolute
aus­ge­spro­chen:
downright
pronounced
di­rekt:
direct
durch­aus:
absolutely
eben:
even
plain
ein­fach:
easy
simple
simply
frei­lich:
admittedly
gänz­lich:
entirely
wholly
ge­ra­de:
straight
ge­ra­de­zu:
absolutely
really
glatt:
smooth
rein:
clean
rest­los:
completely
schier:
sheer
schlicht:
plain
simple
schlicht­weg:
simply
utterly
völ­lig:
absolute
absolutely
all
altogether
arrant
arrantly
complete
completely
entirely
full
fully
perfectly
quite
thoroughly
total
totally
utter
voll­stän­dig:
complete
entire
total
whole
wasch­echt:
fast
washable

Englische Beispielsätze

  • The fastest meteoroids move at about 42 kilometers per second.

  • Belief in God is not evil per se.

  • We can travel through time. And we do it with an incredible rate of one second per second.

  • He couldn't have put it more plainly.

  • Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second.

  • They were plainly dressed.

  • You must admit that you don't feel any time per se isolated from the movement.

  • "Six pence per second," Bob reminds her.

  • It's only six pence per second.

  • We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.

  • "To call a spade a spade" means to speak plainly and unambiguously.

Schlecht­hin übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: schlechthin. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: schlechthin. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 8372801, 3957621, 3278079, 1633452, 1351922, 881044, 306806, 10575906, 73999, 73037, 2284 & 11063841. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR