Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte — John Shaqi
Eingeschneit: Eine StudentengeschichteFrommel, Emil
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Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte
Frommel, Emil
Austria -- Fiction; German language -- Readers -- English; Travelers -- Fiction
10-6. {=daß nit=} (dialect.) for {daß Sie nicht}.
10-7. {=Ihr=}, _you_, sometimes used in addressing people of the rural
districts, implies neither the familiarity of {Du}, nor the formality
of {Sie}.
10-8. {=unsereins, was=} (indef. neuter for masc. and femin.) =
{unsereiner, der}.
10-9. ({=brächt´s=} =) {brächte es}, condit. subj. State the form of
the conditional.
10-10. {=habe=}--mood? why? cf. Page 5, Note 3.
10-11. {=doch=} (adverb, idiom.), _besides; after all; you know_.
10-12. {=das Tauernhaus=}, _“The Summit House” in the Tauern
Mountains_, a chalet where bread, milk, and a guide may be found, also
a hay-bed for the night.
=Page 11.=--11-1. {=sie=} refers to {Rast}.
11-2. {=das Spitzen=} (verb-noun = English -_ing_). Infinitives used
substantively take the article {das}.
11-3. {=gnädiger Herr!=} (comp. Page 6, Note 1), here perhaps: _My
lord!_ or _Your Honor!_
11-4. {=doch=} (adverb, idiom.), here perhaps: _I hope_ or _I
suppose_.
11-5. {=is=} (dialect.) for {ist es}.
11-6. {=vor sich hin=}, cf. Page 5, Note 9.
11-7. {=es wird sein=}, idiomatic use of the future tense to express
probability or supposition, with the adverb, idioms {doch} or {wohl}
added to bring out the sense more clearly--_I hope that it is ..._ or
_is it probably ...?_
=Page 12.=--12-1. {=hin=} (colloq.) for {dahin} or {dorthin}.
12-2. {zwanzig =Büchsenschuß=}--nouns of quantity, weight or measure,
except feminines in {-e}, are used in the singular after a
numeral--_twenty gun-shots_, i.e. _twenty times the range of a
musket-ball_.
12-3. {=es werden sein=}, _it is, I think_, cf. Page 11, Note 7.
12-4. ({verarbeitet}, pass.) {=von=}, _by_. Participles usually
rendered by relative clause.
12-5. {=an= den Tischen}. Great care must always be taken in rendering
the preposition, {=„an“=} = =on= (mostly of time); _at, near, near by,
by the side of; to_ (motion). Here = ?
12-6. {=deren=} (partitive genit. of relat. pron.), cf. Page 1, Note
6.
=Page 13.=--13-1. {=wären=}. Account for the mood.
13-2. {=sich=} (dat. of interest) = {für sich}.
13-3. {=das Kruzifix=}--found everywhere in Catholic countries.
13-4. {=einen roten Tyro´ler=}, _a glass of the (red) claret of
Tyrol_.
13-5. {=man= hörte Stimmen}.--{man} (indef. pers. pron.), _one, they,
people_, or better by passive voice with {Stimmen} as subject.
13-6. ({=sie sind´s=}) = {sie sind es} (“they are it”), idiom. =
English?
13-7. {=was tausend!=} (or {der tausend!} or {potz tausend!})
According to “Grimm’s Wörterbuch,” {der tausend} stands for {der
Tausendkünstige} (_the One with thousand tricks_), a euphemistic
designation of the devil, analog. to English; =deuce!= Trans., _Good
Gracious!_
13-8. {=wir wären=}. The past subj. expresses an assumed (unreal)
result--_we came very near_.
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