Was heißt »un­treu« auf Englisch?

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

  • unfaithful
  • disloyal
  • untrue
  • oneself

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Mary hatte keinen Grund anzunehmen, dass Tom ihr untreu war.

Mary had no reason to suspect that Tom was two-timing her.

Was tätest du, wenn ich untreu würde?

What would you do if I were untrue to you?

What would you do if I were untrue?

Als Luisa gerade die Briefe ihres untreuen Geliebten verbrannte, kam ein Eichhörnchen zum Fenster herein und hüpfte auf ihre Schulter.

As Luisa was burning the letters of her unfaithful lover, a squirrel came in through the window and jumped on her shoulder.

Maria verbrannte die Briefe ihres untreuen Geliebten.

Mary burned the letters of her unfaithful lover.

Tom ist untreu.

Tom is unfaithful.

Tom is disloyal.

Maria beteuerte, nie untreu gewesen zu sein.

Mary swore that she had never been unfaithful.

Tom beschwor, niemals untreu gewesen zu sein.

Tom swore that he had never been unfaithful.

Tom swore that he'd never been unfaithful.

Tom swore he'd never been unfaithful.

Synonyme

pflicht­ver­ges­sen:
irresponsible
neglectful
neglective
negligent

Antonyme

kon­se­quent:
consequential
forceful
pflicht­be­wusst:
duteous
dutiful
treu:
loyal

Englische Beispielsätze

  • One can sacrifice oneself for one's own ideas, but not for the foolishness of others.

  • Stanisław Jerzy Lec once said: Sometimes one must be silent to make oneself heard.

  • It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

  • To be free means to free oneself from fear.

  • You'll stay and have tea with me, won't you? It's so lonesome to have tea all by oneself.

  • The freedom to love means to love others; to love power is to love oneself.

  • Nowadays it's not possible to protect oneself against weapons of mass destruction.

  • They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.

  • To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

  • Such a life makes one want to hang oneself.

  • There is only one way to enlighten the world: to enlighten oneself.

  • The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  • Tom was disloyal.

  • Nothing is more difficult and requires more strength of character than to find oneself in open opposition to one's time and to say: No!

  • Being able to make oneself understood in English is vastly different from mastering the language perfectly.

  • There is a vast difference between being able to make oneself understood in English and mastering the English language perfectly.

  • There's a huge difference between "making oneself understood" and "completely mastering English."

  • Being underage is the inability to avail oneself of one's mind without the guidance of another.

  • The sky was so starry, so bright that, looking at it, one could not help asking oneself whether ill-humoured and capricious people could live under such a sky.

  • That's untrue.

Untergeordnete Begriffe

des­il­lu­si­o­niert:
disaffected
disenchanted
mein­ei­dig:
perjurious

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Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: untreu. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: untreu. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 3146704, 3156730, 3525098, 3553064, 6615176, 9776638, 11101215, 8172269, 6819949, 6780315, 6738394, 9770355, 6029588, 6024624, 5860045, 10096140, 10670932, 10676537, 3460713, 3360584, 2947386, 2921326, 2921254, 2841706, 2833912, 2470199 & 2187269. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR