Was heißt »wa­cke­lig« auf Englisch?

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

  • wobbly
  • shaky
  • unstable

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Die Tischbeine sind wackelig.

The legs of the table are shaky.

Dieser Zahn ist wackelig.

This tooth is wobbly.

Warum ist der Tisch so wackelig?

Why is the table so wobbly?

Tom sieht wackelig aus.

Tom looks wobbly.

Ein alter, wackeliger Brückensteg ist der einzige Weg auf die andere Seite der Klamm.

An old, rickety footbridge is the only way to get to the other side of the gorge.

Synonyme

frag­lich:
doubtful
questionable
in­sta­bil:
instable
klapp­rig:
ramshackle
rickety
lo­cker:
loose
lo­se:
loose
slack
un­si­cher:
unsafe

Englische Beispielsätze

  • She chucked a wobbly again today.

  • She chucked another wobbly today.

  • He's throwing a wobbly.

  • He'll throw a wobbly.

  • The Hungarian forint is one of the most unstable currencies right now.

  • "We can't write any more," explained the grandmother I met in the old people's home. "Our hands are far too stiff and shaky, and our eyes don't want to work properly now, either. And what have we got to write about, anyway?" she laughed.

  • The antimatter is very unstable.

  • The table is wobbly.

  • Mary's very short-tempered, and often throws a wobbly.

  • Tom is unstable.

  • Payment systems are delicate and unstable - Cash is safer.

  • People's emotional lives are becoming more and more unstable.

  • He answered with a shaky voice.

  • In consequence of some badly coded functions, the system is unstable most of the time.

  • Tom's unstable.

  • The wormhole is unstable.

  • It's a bit wobbly.

  • All I did was run a little and now my knees are wobbly.

Wa­cke­lig übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: wackelig. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: wackelig. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 731093, 769383, 1021950, 6618933, 11763050, 11818484, 11818483, 11075833, 11075830, 10984418, 10665269, 8304420, 6606723, 6205914, 5854396, 5796900, 5573351, 3284084, 2915514, 2107641, 1904354, 1463252 & 267761. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR