Peter Pan — Page 10
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She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew, she just knew it.
Sie meinte, dass er ihr in Geist und Körper ebenbürtig war; sie wusste nicht, woher sie das wusste, sie wusste es einfach.
Mrs. Darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh.
Mrs. Darling wandte sich an Mr. Darling, aber er lächelte abweisend.
But it would not blow over and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.
Aber es erledigte sich nicht von selbst, und bald versetzte der lästige Junge Mrs. Darling einen gehörigen Schrecken.
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.
Kinder erleben die seltsamsten Abenteuer, ohne sich dabei etwas dabei zu denken.
For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
So kann es beispielsweise vorkommen, dass sie eine Woche nach dem Ereignis beiläufig erwähnen, dass sie im Wald ihren verstorbenen Vater getroffen und mit ihm gespielt haben.
It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.
Auf ebenso beiläufige Weise machte Wendy eines Morgens eine beunruhigende Enthüllung.
Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:
Auf dem Boden des Kinderzimmers hatte man einige Blätter eines Baumes gefunden, die dort ganz gewiss nicht gelegen hatten, als die Kinder zu Bett gingen, und Mrs. Darling grübelte noch darüber nach, als Wendy mit einem nachsichtigen Lächeln sagte:
She was a tidy child.
Sie war ein ordentliches Kind.
Vocabulary
- Sie
- She; formal 'you' pronoun in German
- meinte
- Thought, believed, or said (past tense of meinen)
- dass
- That; subordinating conjunction introducing a clause
- er
- He; third-person singular masculine pronoun
- ihr
- Her; their; your (plural) — context-dependent pronoun
- Geist
- Mind, spirit, or ghost; intellectual faculty
- Körper
- Body; the physical form of a person
- ebenbürtig
- Equal in rank, ability, or status to someone
- war
- Was; past tense of sein (to be)
- wusste
- Knew; past tense of wissen (to know)
- woher
- From where; asking about origin or source
- einfach
- Simply, just; easy or straightforward
- wandte
- Turned; past tense of wenden (to turn to)
- sich
- Herself, himself, itself; reflexive pronoun
- aber
- But; coordinating conjunction showing contrast
- lächelte
- Smiled; past tense of lächeln (to smile)
- abweisend
- Dismissively, coldly rejecting; in a rebuffing manner
- erledigte
- Dealt with, handled; past tense of erledigen
- selbst
- Itself, himself, herself; by itself automatically
- bald
- Soon; indicating something will happen shortly
- versetzte
- Gave, dealt (a blow); past tense of versetzen
- lästige
- Annoying, bothersome, troublesome (adjective)
- Junge
- Boy; a young male child
- gehörigen
- Proper, considerable, thorough; significant in degree
- Schrecken
- Fright, terror; a sudden feeling of fear
- Kinder
- Children; plural of Kind
- erleben
- To experience, to live through something
- seltsamsten
- Strangest, most peculiar (superlative of seltsam)
- Abenteuer
- Adventure(s); exciting or unusual experiences
- ohne
- Without; preposition indicating absence
- dabei
- In doing so, in the process, meanwhile
- etwas
- Something; an unspecified thing or amount
- denken
- To think; to use one's mind to consider
- kann
- Can; third-person singular of können (to be able)
- beispielsweise
- For example; used to introduce an illustration
- vorkommen
- To occur, happen; to come to pass
- Woche
- Week; a period of seven days
- nach
- After, to, according to; preposition of time or direction
- Ereignis
- Event, occurrence; a notable happening
- beiläufig
- Casually, in passing; mentioned without emphasis
- erwähnen
- To mention; to bring up briefly in speech
- Wald
- Forest, woods; a large area of trees
- ihren
- Their, her (accusative); possessive pronoun form
- verstorbenen
- Deceased, late; having died (adjective form)
- Vater
- Father; a male parent
- getroffen
- Met, encountered; past participle of treffen
- ihm
- Him, it (dative); third-person masculine/neuter pronoun
- gespielt
- Played; past participle of spielen (to play)
- ebenso
- Just as, equally, likewise; indicating same degree
- beiläufige
- Casual, offhand (adjective); said in passing
- Weise
- Manner, way; method or mode of doing something
- machte
- Made, did; past tense of machen
- Morgens
- In the morning; genitive used adverbially
- beunruhigende
- Disturbing, worrying, unsettling (adjective form)
- Enthüllung
- Revelation, disclosure; uncovering of hidden information
- Boden
- Floor, ground, soil; the bottom surface
- Kinderzimmers
- Of the nursery/children's room (genitive form)
- hatte
- Had; past tense of haben (to have)
- man
- One, you, they; impersonal pronoun in German
- einige
- Some, a few; an unspecified small number
- Blätter
- Leaves (of a tree); also pages of a book
- Baumes
- Of the tree (genitive of Baum)
- gefunden
- Found; past participle of finden (to find)
- dort
- There; indicating a specific location
- ganz
- Quite, entirely, completely; whole or total
- gewiss
- Certainly, surely; expressing confidence or certainty
- gelegen
- Lain, been located; past participle of liegen
- als
- As, when, than; conjunction of comparison or time
- Bett
- Bed; furniture used for sleeping
- gingen
- Went; past tense plural of gehen (to go)
- grübelte
- Brooded, pondered; past tense of grübeln
- noch
- Still, yet; indicating continuation or addition
- darüber
- About it, over it; referring to a prior topic
- nachsichtigen
- Indulgent, lenient, tolerant (dative adjective form)
- Lächeln
- Smile; the act or expression of smiling
- sagte
- Said; past tense of sagen (to say)
- ordentliches
- Proper, tidy, decent (neuter adjective form)
- Kind
- Child; a young human being
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