Was heißt »zan­ken« auf Englisch?

Das Verb zan­ken lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • fight

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Sie zanken sich wie Katze und Hund.

They fight like cat and dog.

Sie hörten auf zu zanken, als ich hereinkam.

They stopped quarreling when I came in.

Tom zankt sich mit seiner Frau.

Tom is bickering with his wife.

Tom und Maria zanken den ganzen Tag herum.

Tom and Mary bicker all day long.

Hören Sie auf zu zanken.

Stop squabbling.

Die Kinder zanken sich.

The kids are fighting.

Sie zanken sich immer um Kleinigkeiten.

They always fight over little things.

Synonyme

aus­schimp­fen:
berate
give hell
rebuke
reprove
scold
tell off
kab­beln:
squabble
schel­ten:
complain
schimp­fen:
curse
rant
swear
strei­ten:
argue
ta­deln:
blame
censure
find fault with
reprimand
vor­wer­fen:
reproach
zof­fen:
quarrel
zu­recht­wei­sen:
rebuke
reprimand
scold

Englische Beispielsätze

  • I fight forest fires.

  • Are you ready to fight?

  • Life is a fight against death.

  • We will fight again!

  • Tom's nose was broken in the fight.

  • You had a fight.

  • You were in a fight.

  • Why don't they fight for their rights?

  • Better performance by electoral and security authorities notwithstanding, fears remain that disagreements on the result might engulf the country into a destabilizing fight for power.

  • Tom put up a brave fight.

  • Significant progress has been made in the fight against malaria.

  • Tom lost, but he put up a good fight.

  • Let's not fight anymore.

  • You can only be a soldier for so long before you don't need a reason to fight anymore.

  • Tom tried to provoke a fight.

  • Tom tried to provoke a fight, but John wouldn't be provoked.

  • In order to recapture the Ko, Black now forces White to play elsewhere on the board and, on the next move, repeats the previous attack. And the fight goes on like this, in what is called the battle of Ko.

  • First they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win.

  • The fight takes place only on the dark diagonals.

  • There's a certain British billionaire author who would sue me if I said what I wanted to say about her, and I don't have the money to fight the suit.

Zan­ken übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: zanken. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: zanken. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2023, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 725827, 1839346, 4521704, 5230999, 7064857, 8043929, 8745769, 12157029, 12088906, 12061694, 12012563, 11857835, 11705423, 11705422, 11521507, 11497313, 11273473, 11254402, 10729951, 10699596, 10633380, 10582356, 10582355, 10371792, 10367113, 10341879 & 10316675. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR