Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None — Page 11
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During the month of August 1881 my brother resolved to reveal the teaching of the Eternal Recurrence, in dithyrambic and psalmodic form, through the mouth of Zarathustra.
Im Monat August 1881 beschloss mein Bruder, die Lehre der Ewigen Wiederkunft in dithyrambischer und psalmodischer Form durch den Mund Zarathustras zu offenbaren.
Beneath this is written:—
Darunter steht geschrieben:—
Just as he was beginning to recuperate his health, however, an unkind destiny brought him a number of most painful personal experiences.
Gerade als er jedoch begann, seine Gesundheit wiederzugewinnen, brachte ihm ein ungünstiges Schicksal eine Reihe höchst schmerzlicher persönlicher Erlebnisse.
Vocabulary
- Im
- Contraction of 'in dem', meaning 'in the'
- Monat
- Month; a unit of time in the calendar
- August
- August; the eighth month of the year
- beschloss
- Decided, resolved; past tense of 'beschließen'
- mein
- My; first-person singular possessive pronoun
- Bruder
- Brother; male sibling of a person
- Lehre
- Doctrine, teaching, or theory conveyed to others
- Ewigen
- Eternal, everlasting; adjective in declined form
- Wiederkunft
- Return, recurrence; coming back of something
- Form
- Form, shape, or style of expression or structure
- durch
- Through, by means of; preposition indicating agency
- Mund
- Mouth; the oral opening used for speech or eating
- offenbaren
- To reveal, disclose, or make something known publicly
- Darunter
- Underneath, among them; adverb indicating below or inclusion
- steht
- Stands, is written; third-person singular of 'stehen'
- geschrieben
- Written; past participle of the verb 'schreiben'
- Gerade
- Just, precisely, exactly; adverb emphasizing a moment
- als
- When, as, than; conjunction used in comparisons or clauses
- jedoch
- However, yet; conjunction indicating contrast or exception
- begann
- Began; past tense of 'beginnen', to start something
- seine
- His; possessive pronoun for third-person masculine singular
- Gesundheit
- Health; the general condition of one's body or mind
- wiederzugewinnen
- To regain, recover; to win back something previously lost
- brachte
- Brought; past tense of 'bringen', to bring something
- ihm
- Him, to him; dative form of the pronoun 'er'
- ungünstiges
- Unfavorable, adverse; describing a negative circumstance
- Schicksal
- Fate, destiny; the force determining life's events
- Reihe
- Series, row, sequence; a number of things in succession
- höchst
- Highly, extremely; superlative adverb intensifying adjectives
- schmerzlicher
- More painful, distressing; comparative form of 'schmerzlich'
- persönlicher
- More personal, individual; relating to one's private life
- Erlebnisse
- Experiences, events; memorable or significant personal occurrences
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