Was heißt »se­lig« auf Englisch?

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Geben ist seliger denn nehmen.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Marias Gesicht strahlte selige Zufriedenheit aus.

Maria's face radiated beautiful contentment.

Am meisten beeinflusst hat mein Leben keine andere als meine selige Mutter Maria.

The one who most influenced my life was no other than my late mother Mary.

Maria konnte nicht schlafen, während ihr Mann Tom selig neben ihr in Morpheusens Reich hinübergeglitten war. Es stimmt, dachte sie, dass man nirgends einsamer ist denn neben einem Schläfer. Sie wusste aber nicht mehr, wo sie das gehört hatte.

Mary couldn't sleep, while her husband Tom had slipped blissfully into the land of Nod. It's true, she thought, that you're nowhere more alone than next to someone who's asleep, although where she had heard that she no longer remembered.

Er wollte lieber in seliger Unwissenheit leben.

He'd rather live in blissful ignorance.

Die britischen Prinzen William und Harry haben in einer Zeremonie am Donnerstag im Londoner Kensington-Palast eine Statue ihrer seligen Mutter, der Prinzessin Diana, enthüllt, deren 60. Geburtstag es gewesen wäre.

Britain’s Prince William and Prince Harry unveiled a statue to their late mother Princess Diana in a ceremony Thursday at London’s Kensington Palace, on what would have been her 60th birthday.

Synonyme

ge­fal­len:

please

ge­stor­ben:

deceased

glück­se­lig:

overjoyed

tot:

dead

ver­schie­den:

different

various

ver­stor­ben:

deceased

defunct

departed

late

Antonyme

un­glück­lich:

unhappy

ver­dammt:

damn

Englische Beispielsätze

• She kissed her little daughter on the forehead, blessed her, and shortly after died.

• She says if women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change.

• You are blessed.

• I'm blessed.

• Someone is definitely watching out for me and I feel very blessed!

• 'Your offspring shall possess their enemies' gates, and in your seed shall be all nations blessed because you obeyed my command thus.'

• Tom has been blessed with a good life since becoming a Canadian citizen many decades ago.

• I will be blessed this year.

• God has blessed me with riches.

• The priest blessed the newly built church.

• The priest blessed the marriage of the happy couple.

• The priest blessed the congregation.

• I am blessed if I know it.