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27th translation contest: "Stories about nature" » English to German

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Source text in English

We live in one of the tiny apartments in a multi-storeyed building complex that provides shelter to a number of middle-class families. But, the members of the family Felis Domestica who have taken a fancy to our complex might very well outnumber the members of Homo Sapiens. Because these quadrupeds with retractable claws, who can boast of their country cousins- Lions, Tigers, Lynxes, and Ocelots fear no one in our vicinity. The increasing feline population possessing nine lives up their claws bothers everyone but provides comic relief to many.

These cats in our avenue have their own strict demarcations about territory. The ground floor, first and second-floor mousers keep to their floors except for hungry forays into the kitchens across the lines of control. The terrace is exclusively reserved for the young ones and occasionally used by the aristocrats from the erstwhile Siam for body lickings and sunbaths. Some of the tomcats find cozy corners for a purring sleep in places where there isn’t room to swing a cat in, such as the watchman’s cabin, where they might have found the poor fellow catnapping. God has gifted these cats with two voice boxes one for purring and another for meowing and a few of the feline sopranos in our locality keep all the residents awake with their nocturnal orchestras on special occasions.

Some of the residents who wish to be clean as a cat in pattens get irritated when these grey cats mess up their things. The hawks among the residents strongly feel that these cats should be driven out with a cat o’nine tails. But the doves are undecided waiting to see which way the cat jumps. Well, we don’t know who will be called to bell the cat!

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Entry #33332 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
alexsieber
alexsieber
Germany
Finalist
Voting points1st2nd3rd
143 x402 x1
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Entry4.014.13 (8 ratings)3.88 (8 ratings)
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  • 4 users agreed with "likes" (7 total agrees)
+3
können sie sich doch mit ihren entfernten Verwandten vom Land brüsten
Good term selection
Sonny
+1
Kätzchen
Good term selection
Sonny
+1
ausgiebige Fellpflege
Good term selection
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
+1
1
wo selbst eine Katze nur allein auf einem Bein tanzen kann
Good term selection
Great solu​tion
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
nächtlichen Arien
Good term selection
Beatrix Kerkhoff Büscher
Aufräumen und Putzen für die Katz ist.
Good term selection
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
+1
eunschwänziger Namensvetterin
Good term selection
good way t​o avoid re​petition
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
wie der Kater läuft
Good term selection
Beatrix Kerkhoff Büscher
Entry #33191 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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Voting points1st2nd3rd
102 x41 x20
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Entry3.763.88 (8 ratings)3.63 (8 ratings)
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  • 3 users entered 5 "like" tags
  • 6 users agreed with "likes" (7 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
Wir leben in einer der winzigen Wohnungen in einem mehrstöckigen Gebäudekomplex, der etliche Mittelklassefamilien beherbergt.
Flows well
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
+3
1
Katzenmusik
Good term selection
alexsieber
-1
1
gestiefelter Kater
Good term selection
Nice!
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
+1
geht es gegen den Strich
Good term selection
that's rea​lly great
alexsieber
+3
2
den Tiger beim Schwanz zu packen
Other
fun transl​ation, lig​ht just li​ke the sou​rce text
Nadia Silva Castro
Entry #33542 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Germany
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Voting points1st2nd3rd
101 x43 x20
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry3.383.63 (8 ratings)3.13 (8 ratings)
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  • 2 users entered 3 "like" tags
  • 1 user agreed with "likes" (1 total agree)
geht jedem auf die Nerven, bietet aber vielen erheiternde Ablenkung
Flows well
good solut​ion!
Irina Hübel
+1
fallen nur bei Hunger in die Küchen jenseits der Demarkationslinien
Flows well
Christiane Bowien-Böll
die gern alles sauber wie geleckt haben
Flows well
Christiane Bowien-Böll
Entry #33179 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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Voting points1st2nd3rd
71 x41 x21 x1
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Entry3.383.38 (8 ratings)3.38 (8 ratings)
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  • 4 users entered 7 "like" tags
  • 2 users agreed with "likes" (3 total agrees)
Gattung
Flows well
Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
geht zwar allen auf den Geist, bringt jedoch viele zum Schmunzeln.
Flows well
best solut​ion
Irina Hübel
samtpfotigen Soprane
Good term selection
alexsieber
+2
1
Katzenmusik
Good term selection
alexsieber
die gern wie geleckt aussehen würden
Flows well
good term ​selection
Irina Hübel
+1
Dachhase
Good term selection
great!
alexsieber
un, wir wissen nicht, wer dazu auserkoren sein wird, der Katze die Schelle umzuhängen!
Flows well
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
Entry #33431 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Finalist
Voting points1st2nd3rd
401 x22 x1
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry3.613.78 (9 ratings)3.44 (9 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 3 users entered 6 "like" tags
  • 3 users agreed with "likes" (5 total agrees)
  • 4 users disagreed with "likes" (4 total disagrees)
-1
1
klitzekleinen
Good term selection
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
vielgeschossigen
Flows well
Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
voneinander abgegrenzte Reviere
Good term selection
trifft es ​bestens
Ruth Wiedekind
-2
+1
1
um ein Kätzchen aus einem Sack zu lassen
Flows well
great way ​to keep th​e word pun​!
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
+2
nächtliche Gesangseinlagen
Good term selection
Ruth Wiedekind
-1
+2
1
wie der Hase – oder in diesem Fall: die Katze – läuft.
Flows well
great solu​tion
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
Entry #33227 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Finalist
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0000
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry3.443.75 (8 ratings)3.13 (8 ratings)
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  • 4 users entered 6 "like" tags
  • 2 users agreed with "likes" (2 total agrees)
wenn sie der Hunger
Good term selection
wenn sie d​er Hunger ​treibt
alexsieber
sich kaum rühren kann
Flows well
Natalija Galacheva Dimitrieva
+2
1
Loge des Pförtners,
Good term selection
Michaela Pschierer-Barnfather
und könnten den armen Kerl bei seinem Katzenschläfchen ertappen
Flows well
good solut​ion
Irina Hübel
Stimmorgane
Flows well
sounds bet​ter than "​Kehlkopf"
Irina Hübel
die nächtlichen Chöre der Katzensoprane
Flows well
good solut​ion
Irina Hübel
Entry #33517 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Finalist
Voting points1st2nd3rd
0000
Rating typeOverallQualityAccuracy
Entry3.003.00 (9 ratings)3.00 (9 ratings)
Entry tagging:
  • 3 users entered 3 "like" tags
  • 2 users agreed with "likes" (2 total agrees)
  • 1 user disagreed with "likes" (1 total disagree)
+2
1
Katzenadel
Good term selection
Sonny
entschiedene
Other
nice word ​playing (e​ntschieden​e/unentsch​ieden)
alexsieber
-1
1
wie der Hase läuft
Flows well
excellent ​choice! th​is is an a​ppropriate​ German id​iom
Irina Hübel


Non-finalist entries

The following entries were not selected by peers to advance to finals-round voting.

Entry #32966 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Bianca Fritz (X)
Bianca Fritz (X)
United States
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Entry1.801.88 (8 ratings)1.71 (7 ratings)
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