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Aug 24, 2015 10:29
8 yrs ago
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German term

weil mitgenommen

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Dort erst kommen wir zur Ruhe ohne Suche, weil mitgenommen, sicher mitgenommen, sicher wissend.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 because we will be guided there
1 worn out / banged up / beat / pensive
Change log

Aug 24, 2015 10:40: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "Other" to "Poetry & Literature"

Aug 24, 2015 10:48: Murad AWAD changed "Term asked" from "weil mitgenommen, sicher mitgenommen, sicher wissend." to "weil mitgenommen"

Discussion

Horst Huber (X) Aug 31, 2015:
Possibly there is something with the same potential for ambiguity, as for instance "taken in"?
TonyTK Aug 24, 2015:
Looking at the URL ... ... posted by Johanna, you'll see that "mitgenommen" occurs multiple times. It appears to be used in the sense of "carried along", "embraced" even.
Kristina Cosumano (X) Aug 24, 2015:
And as it's poetry, it may have double meaning, as in "exhausted" and "led there". As the others have already said, context is everything.
Horst Huber (X) Aug 24, 2015:
Chapeau bas to Johanna, as always. Now if we are really taken up by the "Kraft", we'll end up "mitgenommen" in the other sense of the word?
BrigitteHilgner Aug 24, 2015:
@ Johanna Timm Es begeistert mich immer wieder, wenn freundliche Helfer und Helferinnen auf dieser Plattform Informationen verbreiten!
Vielleicht könnte "lead", oder "guide" passen, aber ich gebe zu, dies ist nicht meine Sorte Text ...
Johanna Timm, PhD Aug 24, 2015:
@ Brigitte: Es ist die Suche nach Einsicht.. ...und was uns dorthin mitnimmt, ist "die Kraft."
https://goo.gl/E7pZGh
TonyTK Aug 24, 2015:
"guided", ... ... "taken up"?
BrigitteHilgner Aug 24, 2015:
Ohne brauchbaren Kontext kann man nur raten ... dass es hier um "mitnehmen" im Sinne von "take along" geht. Vermutlich ist dies jedoch nicht die bestmögliche Übersetzung - für die bräuchte man Kontext (worum geht es? wer schreibt? was ist unter "dort" zu verstehen? etc.)

Proposed translations

+1
9 hrs
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because we will be guided there

Let me put my poet hat on...

"..Only there, our restless pursuits will come to an end because we will be guided there, safely guided with comforting certainty.."

Unfortunately, I have yet to find an equivalent for "sicher" that can be used twice in the same sentence..
Peer comment(s):
agree Susanne Rindlisbacher
2 hrs
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7 hrs

worn out / banged up / beat / pensive

My guesses to get things rolling.
Or in the sense of affected / caught up / stirred
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