Was heißt »zwecks« auf Englisch?

Die Präposition zwecks lässt sich wie folgt von Deutsch auf Englisch übersetzen:

  • in order
  • purpose

Deutsch/Englische Beispielübersetzungen

Mary versuchte, die Wörter nach dem anderen Ende des Satzes zu schieben, zwecks Zufallbringens von Tom.

Mary was attempting to push the words toward the other end of the sentence in order to dump Tom.

Sie ging zwecks eines Literaturstudiums nach Italien.

She went to Italy to study literature.

Der Saturnianer Tom beschloss, zwecks eines Treffens mit der Venusianerin Maria, die er über „Twitter“ kennengelernt hatte, in den Sommerferien zur Venus zu fliegen.

Tom the Saturnian decided to set out for Venus over summer break to meet Mary the Venusian, who he met on Twitter.

Emilies Mutter ist zwecks eines Treffens mit den Lehrern zur Schule gefahren.

Emily’s mother has gone to the school to meet her teachers.

Ich habe zwecks Umzugs nach Kanada Französisch gelernt, aber ich habe es gar nicht gebraucht.

I learned French in order to move to Canada, but I didn't need it at all.

Synonyme

be­hufs:
in order to
in view of

Englische Beispielsätze

  • We did it on purpose.

  • We did that on purpose.

  • "She's doing it on purpose." "Who's doing what on purpose?"

  • What do you see as the purpose of your life?

  • What's the purpose of this?

  • I didn't do it on purpose!

  • I didn't do it on purpose, did I!

  • Just because you didn't do it on purpose doesn't mean you shouldn't be held accountable.

  • Let's consider these factors in order.

  • Are you delaying publication of the information on purpose?

  • It was a sensational victory, but in order to be crowned champions, the team still has to defeat some really tough opponents.

  • One should break down a large problem into its elementary units in order to solve it effectively.

  • We want to apply for a special visa in order to remain here.

  • Would you mind telling me the purpose of your coming to Viet Nam?

  • How one must hate one's language in order to disfigure it like that!

  • The main purpose of white blood cells is to protect against infection.

  • The main purpose of red blood cells is to transport oxygen.

  • They did that on purpose.

  • The purpose of the people who develop AI is to imitate human intelligence, not to recreate it.

  • Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence whose purpose is to provide computers with the ability to learn without being programmed.

Zwecks übersetzt in weiteren Sprachen:

Quellen:
  1. [Übersetzungen] Wiktionary-Autoren: zwecks. In: Wiktionary – Das freie Wörterbuch, 2023, [online] de.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 3.0
  2. [Thesaurus] OpenThesaurus-User: zwecks. In: OpenThesaurus – Das freie Wörterbuch für Synonyme, 2024, [online] openthesaurus.de, CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. [Satzbeispiele] User-generated content: Satz Nr. 1076336, 1771431, 2667429, 11622170, 12364059, 12217721, 12217720, 12150991, 12149144, 12137533, 12070306, 12070305, 11644971, 10936568, 10927909, 10712065, 10703827, 10702139, 10684059, 10670835, 10617882, 10617873, 10502045, 10470693 & 10464385. In: tatoeba.org, CC BY 2.0 FR