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| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6539 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 1 of 4 07 October 2009 at 2:09am | IP Logged |
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1) My first question is the literal meaning/translation of "um nur einige zu nennen." I'm not stuck on the nur, einige, or nennen. It's the um ... zu that is troubling. I learned in my class several semesters ago that um ... zu means "in order to." Is this correct?
2) Is "feiern auf" a unit of its own, or are the two words semantically distinct in the phrase "Verschiedene Kulturen feiern auf verschiedene Weise." ?? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6442 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 07 October 2009 at 6:31am | IP Logged |
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1. um...zu does indeed mean "in order to". It conveys the meaning of "purpose" of an action. So the phrase you provided would mean "to name but a few"
2. I'm not sure what you mean by semantically distinct, but if what I think is correct, they are distinct words that need not go hand in hand. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5738 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 3 of 4 07 October 2009 at 6:36am | IP Logged |
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1) Yes.
2) The two words are semantically distinct. However, "auf...Weise" translates literally to "in...way", so the meaning of your sentence would be, "Different cultures celebrate in different ways". z.B., "auf die gleiche Weise" = "in the same way", or "in a similar manner". 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| adoggie Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6539 days ago 160 posts - 159 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese* Studies: German, Russian, French | Message 4 of 4 07 October 2009 at 9:06am | IP Logged |
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Great, thanks.
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