The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Page 7
I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was written.
Ich untersuchte sorgfältig die Schrift und das Papier, auf dem sie geschrieben worden war.
He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "Eglow, Eglonitz—here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad.
Er nahm einen schweren braunen Band aus seinem Regal. „Eglow, Eglonitz – hier haben wir es, Egria. Es liegt in einem deutschsprachigen Land – in Böhmen, nicht weit von Karlsbad.
Vocabulary
- untersuchte
- Examined or investigated something carefully in the past
- sorgfältig
- Carefully or thoroughly, with great attention to detail
- Schrift
- Writing, script, or handwriting as a general concept
- Papier
- Paper, the material used for writing or printing
- geschrieben
- Past participle of 'schreiben', meaning 'written'
- worden
- Auxiliary past participle used in passive voice constructions
- nahm
- Past tense of 'nehmen', meaning 'took' something
- schweren
- Adjective meaning 'heavy' or 'difficult' in declined form
- braunen
- Adjective meaning 'brown' in its declined adjectival form
- Band
- A volume or tome of a book in a series
- Regal
- A shelf or bookcase used for storing items
- liegt
- Third person singular of 'liegen', meaning 'is located'
- deutschsprachigen
- Adjective meaning 'German-speaking', relating to language regions
- Land
- Country, land, or region as a geographic territory
- Böhmen
- Bohemia, a historical region now part of Czech Republic
- weit
- Adjective or adverb meaning 'far' or 'wide' in distance
- Karlsbad
- Historic spa town now known as Karlovy Vary in Czechia
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