hehe...My wife and I are going to Germany with my parents in May, then through Austria to Italy for a week.
On our way back to Frankfurt, Germany we will either be driving through Switzerland with my parents or my wife and I may take a train to the Tuscany region in Italy, then through Switzerland back to Germany.
I can't wait to show my wife the beauty of your country...pictures and words don't do justice! I think taking a train would be so incredible!
hehe...My wife and I are going to Germany with my parents in May, then through Austria to Italy for a week.
On our way back to Frankfurt, Germany we will either be driving through Switzerland with my parents or my wife and I may take a train to the Tuscany region in Italy, then through Switzerland back to Germany.
I can't wait to show my wife the beauty of your country...pictures and words don't do justice! I think taking a train would be so incredible!
Any recommendations while I'm in the "area"?
There are many places to see in Switzerland, we are in the north west (near Basel), living in a 4-500 year old mill set in 6.5 acres of land, it would be great if you could stop by, the grounds are beautiful at that time of year :)
There are many places to see in Switzerland, we are in the north west (near Basel), living in a 4-500 year old mill set in 6.5 acres of land, it would be great if you could stop by, the grounds are beautiful at that time of year :)
There are many places to see in Switzerland, we are in the north west (near Basel), living in a 4-500 year old mill set in 6.5 acres of land, it would be great if you could stop by, the grounds are beautiful at that time of year :)
Now I am jellous, Sounds like a great pad...
It's nice but I miss home too much, which happens to be just up the road from you (Halesowen M5 J3)
According to my Belgian friend, who is a doctor in Antwerp and a native German speaker:
Remember the brothers who bear the fate of our separation!
She is fluent in English, German, Yiddish, Flemish, and other languages, and is a poet. She says the sense of the thing is better conveyed by "bear" than by "suffer", because "bear" has a double meaning, as "carry" or "suffer" a thing. (I bear gifts, I can't bear this torment any longer) More particularly, it's "the" brothers, not "our" brothers, and she finds this important though I'm not sure why.
I stand corrected, "bear" is the better word to use, it conveys the idea perfectly. As for "the" brothers vs. "our" brothers, we had already agreed on that one!
It's important because it's not possessive.
So there we have it...
Remember the brothers who bear the fate of our separation!
As a literary translator, I would render the text as follows: "Let us remember our brothers and sisters who share the fate of our separation".
While several observations made here (below) are correct with regards to a literal translation, the term 'Brüder' relates in a gender-free fraternal sense, and the text, as a whole, is an appeal to unify rather than one to lament the burden specified in it. The English 'fate', in itself -as apposed to 'destiny'- does, IMO, a fine job of implying 'weight', thus eliminating any need to repeat it via a verb such as 'bear'.
Another thing worth considering is the very different perception and use of possessives in the respective languages. 'Die Brüder' most certainly renders as 'our ...' in English, as it is obvious that the sense of kinship and fraternity is bridged here between subject and object.
I'll buy into that. We (my friend and I) were working for a more literal translationt hat still rang true, but undoubtedly your version more closely captures the intent of the original German.
My German is awful and I lament the fact that I don't train myself lest I forget it altogether!
I still remember reading a book about the rhine and when I got to the word Oberheinebene I put the emphasis on the wrong syllables to read "Ober-heine-beine"!
