{"id":43678,"date":"2024-04-28T21:24:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43678"},"modified":"2024-04-28T21:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T01:26:10","slug":"sonderling-sunday-jinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43678","title":{"rendered":"Sonderling Sunday – Jinx und der magische Urwald!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s time for Sonderling Sunday<\/a>! That time of the week when I play with language by looking at the German translations of children’s books.<\/p>\n

I let Sonderling Sunday lapse for a long time, but now I’m reviving it in eager anticipation of my 60th birthday trip in a month and a half, when after 18 years away, I’m going to go back and visit the place where I lived for ten years.<\/p>\n

So, yes, Sonderling Sunday! Today I pulled out a kids’ fantasy book that I loved when I read it, Jinx<\/a><\/em>, by Sage Blackwood, called Jinx und der magische Urwald<\/em> in German. I’m appalled to discover that while I have used Jinx<\/em> before for Sonderling Sunday<\/a>, the last time was in 2015<\/a>. Far, far too long!<\/p>\n

So we will begin where we left off, the third chapter “Strange Feet,” on page 25 in English, Drittes Kapitel “Fremdes F\u00fc\u00dfe,” Seite 31 auf Deutsch<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The first sentence is:
\n“Winter settled in to stay.”
\n= Der Winter richtete sich zum Bleiben ein.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Simon was away a lot.”
\n= Simon war viel unterwegs.<\/em><\/p>\n

“he often came back in a foul mood”
\n= Oft kehrte er \u00fcbellaunig zur\u00fcck<\/em><\/p>\n

“terrifying” = Furchterregendes<\/em><\/p>\n

“gradually” = allm\u00e4hlich<\/em><\/p>\n

“cooking mood” = Kochlaune<\/em><\/p>\n

“cranky” = m\u00fcrrisch<\/em><\/p>\n

“fed them” = bewirtete sie<\/em><\/p>\n

“south wing” = S\u00fcdfl\u00fcgel<\/em><\/p>\n

“clearing” = Lichtung<\/em><\/p>\n

“Try as he might” = Sosehr Jinx es auch versuchte<\/em><\/p>\n

“inside and out” = drinnen wie drau\u00dfen<\/em><\/p>\n

“slid off” = hinuntergerutscht<\/em><\/p>\n

“on purpose” = mit Absicht<\/em><\/p>\n

“gnarly feet” = schwielige F\u00fc\u00dfe<\/em> (Google translate: “calloused feet”)<\/p>\n

“had nothing in common with tree roots” = nichts mit Baumwurzeln gemein hatten<\/em><\/p>\n

“time ran together in a blur”
\n= Zeit verschwamm zu einem gro\u00dfen Ganzen<\/em>
\n(“Time blurred to one big whole”)<\/p>\n

“icky” = klebriges<\/em> (“sticky”)<\/p>\n

“Alarmed, he gave a loud snore”
\n= Erschrocken schnarchte er laut auf<\/em><\/p>\n

“bristles” = Borstiges<\/em><\/p>\n

I like this word:
\ncat-repellant spell = Katzenabwehrzauber<\/em><\/p>\n

“my business” = meine Angelegenheit<\/em><\/p>\n

“testily” = gereizt<\/em><\/p>\n

“shooting star” = Sternschnuppe<\/em><\/p>\n

“She had a formidable nose.”
\n= Ihre Nase war beeindruckend.<\/em>
\n(“Her nose was impressive.”)<\/p>\n

“something more polite” = etwas H\u00f6flicheres<\/em><\/p>\n

“And wives were kind of hard to miss.”
\n= Ehefrauen waren kaum zu \u00fcbersehen.<\/em><\/p>\n

“was already becoming fuzzy in his memory”
\n= in seiner Erinnerung immer verschwommener wurde<\/em><\/p>\n

“Everyone was afraid all the time on general principle”
\n= Alle hatten grunds\u00e4tzlich immer Angst<\/em>
\n(“Everyone was basically always afraid.”)<\/p>\n

“to hide his confusion” = seine Verwirrung zu verbergen<\/em><\/p>\n

“poker” = Sch\u00fcrhaken<\/em><\/p>\n

“smooshed” = zerquetschte<\/em><\/p>\n

“midnight meeting” = Mitternachtstreffen<\/em><\/p>\n

“sizzle” = knisterte<\/em><\/p>\n

“Were they all dead before you met my husband?”
\n= Waren sie alle schon tot, bevor du meinen Mann kennengelernt hast?<\/em><\/p>\n

And that’s it for Chapter Three! I hope by the next time I come back to Jinx<\/em> I won’t be saying Zeit verschwamm zu einem gro\u00dfen Ganzen<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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