English term
My sweet hornet
I came up with "Mein lieber Hornisse" , but I'm not good yet with translating "my," with all its permutations in German.
Obviously a non-PRO-type question, so I'm classifying it thus.
Thank you!
| 3 +2 | mein Hornißchen |
norseman
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| 5 +6 | Meine liebe Hornisse |
Joan Hass
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| 3 | Mein kleines, herziges Hornisschen |
erikaschmidt
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Jun 23, 2008 15:35: Steffen Walter changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (2): norseman, Johanna Timm, PhD
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Proposed translations
mein Hornißchen
Viele Grüße, Steve
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eloso (X)
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Johanna Timm, PhD
: Nicht nur allein wegen des verwendeten Neutrums, sondern auch vom Klang her finde ich das ausgesprochen passend: Süß, aber mit Vorsicht zu genießen :-))
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Meine liebe Hornisse
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Note added at 10 mins (2008-06-18 17:05:16 GMT)
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I translated thinking of that there might be a reason for "hornet
otherwise like efreitag "Bienchen" (meine süsse Biene, mein süsses Bienchen) is much nicer and efreitag should post it!
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Note added at 17 mins (2008-06-18 17:12:20 GMT)
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if you want to keep hornest, it´s like I wrote.
maybe Meine süsse Hornisse
süsse = sweet
liebe = my lovely h., my dear h.
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Nesrin
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Danke, Nesrin
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Erik Freitag
: Correct, I was wrong. You would probably keep the female form, even if the adressee is male.
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Danke, efreitag ;-)
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Hans G. Liepert
: 'süsses Bienchen' beim Mann halte ich eher für gewöhnungsbedürftig - aber wenn's im Herzen brennt, ist im Oberstübchen eben Rauch // Keine Ahnung, was bei euch vor dem Mann kommt - aber bei den Hymenoptera gehts eher um Stachel als um Stichelei ;0)
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Ja, Hans, doch das mit dem Mann kam später... ;-)) Und vielleicht ist´s eher ne Stichelei ????/// Würd wohl kaum jemand als Hornisse bezeichnen, aber Stachel-/-"Stichel"-Gefahr besteht bei allen, oder ?????, im übertragenen Sinne angedacht.... ;-)
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
28 mins
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Thanks!
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Anita Cassidy (X)
: meine süße Hornisse
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Danke, Anita
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DDM
3 hrs
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Danke, Daniel
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Mein kleines, herziges Hornisschen
I would either translate it as 'Mein kleines oder suesses Bienchen' or if you are sure you want to keep the hornet as 'Mein herziges, kleines Hornisschen'.
Hope that helps.
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