Was heißt »vor­ma­lig« auf Englisch?

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

  • earlier
  • former
  • has-been
  • previous
  • pristine
  • quondam
  • erstwhile

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

In seinen letzten Jahren hatte Freddie Mercury, vormaliger Frontsänger von „Queen“, einen Stimmumfang von vier Oktaven.

The late Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen, had a vocal range of four octaves.

Synonyme

alt:
old
da­ma­lig:
at that time
at the time
then
ehe­ma­lig:
exformer
one-time
frü­her:
early
ur­sprüng­lich:
aboriginal
initial
initially
original
originally
primal
primary
primordial

Antonyme

der­zei­tig:
actual
current
present
jet­zig:
current
present
künf­tig:
forthcoming
future
upcoming
zu­künf­tig:
from here on
future
hereafter
in the future
next time
prospective
to-be

Englische Beispielsätze

  • My previous boss was a woman.

  • Tom got home three hours earlier than Mary.

  • We should've set off earlier.

  • The newspaper subscription fee is the same this year as the previous year.

  • The sun comes up earlier in summer.

  • A former flatmate would call French toast eggy bread.

  • "Who's that man there?" "Who? The man I was speaking to earlier?"

  • I would have told him earlier, but I didn't think he would understand.

  • The former head of state left the public stage years ago.

  • I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier.

  • The police suspect that a disgruntled former employee was the one who set the factory on fire.

  • Tom should've called Mary earlier.

  • Had I known earlier, I could've done something about it.

  • It was there earlier.

  • "Where is it?" "It was there earlier."

  • "Where has it gone?" "It was there earlier."

  • "Where's that spanner you were using yesterday?" "It was here earlier. Have you asked Mary? Maybe she's got it."

  • We should've got up earlier.

  • Olympic organizers started the women’s marathon at 6 a.m. local time, an hour earlier than planned, in an effort to avoid extreme heat and humidity.

  • For two whole years a team of town planners, local business people and residents worked on a blueprint for the town, a former centre of car production.

Übergeordnete Begriffe

ver­gan­gen:
bygone
past

Vormalig übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: vormalig. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2022, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: vormalig. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Beispielübersetzungen] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 5231011, 9650637, 9888985, 9618662, 9925974, 9939515, 9518030, 10019082, 10056625, 9431669, 10102771, 10106870, 10122102, 10129848, 10162927, 10162928, 10162929, 10172772, 10201636, 10227822 & 10240039. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR