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Tides in French, German and Spanish
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Kary Groupie Canada Joined 6150 days ago 85 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German	Message 1 of 3 11 July 2010 at 5:08am \| IP Logged
	I'm a little confused how the different tides translate. I think this works: (English-Spanish-French-German) the tide - la marea - la marée - die Gezeit the high tide - la marea alta/la pleamar - la pleine mer/la marée haute - das Hochwasser the low tide - la marea baja/la bajamar - la basse mer/la marée basse - das Niedrigwasser the flood tide - el flujo - le flux/le flot - die Flut the ebb tide - el reflujo - le reflux/le jusant - die Ebbe But there seems to be some vagueness where Ebbe and marée basse refer to both ebb and low tides. Marée haute and Flut seem to be used for both high and flood tides. Or maybe the vagueness is because of the translations into English? Edited by Kary on 11 July 2010 at 5:14am 1 person has voted this message useful
Asamajinja Pentaglot Newbie Germany Joined 5236 days ago 11 posts - 17 votes Speaks: German*, Japanese, Korean, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian	Message 2 of 3 26 July 2010 at 2:44am \| IP Logged
	about the German ones: die Gezeiten - used nearly only in plural!! Flut - high tide/ flood tide Ebbe - low tide/ ebb tide Hochwasser - usually "flood", as a natural disaster Niedrigwasser - yeah... this word exists too... not to forget "Springflut" and "Nippflut", but now I'm puzzled too... 2 persons have voted this message useful
Harder Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5250 days ago 21 posts - 31 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French	Message 3 of 3 01 August 2010 at 10:34am \| IP Logged
	The nautically correct term for rising water is "Flut" and once the water has reached it's highest point, it's "Hochwasser". In everyday use, we leave that part out and just say it's "Flut", too. Same for "Ebbe / Niedrigwasser". So even though there are four tides, Germans use only two to describe the coming and going of water. 1 person has voted this message useful

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