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Sentence #1842335

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 AlanF_US AlanF_US January 29, 2024 January 29, 2024 at 4:06:54 AM UTC link Permalink

>Wir brachten die besten Freunde auseinander.

This sentence was added as a translation of "We parted the best of friends." In that sentence, "parted" is always meant intransitively, meaning that the speaker and the other person being spoken about left each other peacefully and remained close friends. But I suppose the sentence could also lend itself to an interpretation in which "parted" is meant transtiively, along the lines of "They were the best of friends, but we separated them." Is this the meaning of the current German sentence?

@Pfirsichbaeumchen

Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen January 29, 2024, edited January 29, 2024 January 29, 2024 at 4:36:15 AM UTC, edited January 29, 2024 at 4:40:04 AM UTC link Permalink

Hi, Alan. Yes, the German sentence means that "we" separated two other people, who were the best of friends. It can't have the first meaning you mention.

Pfirsichbaeumchen Pfirsichbaeumchen January 29, 2024, edited January 29, 2024 January 29, 2024 at 11:37:19 AM UTC, edited January 29, 2024 at 11:53:32 AM UTC link Permalink

I've unlinked them. 🙂

AlanF_US AlanF_US January 29, 2024 January 29, 2024 at 12:39:34 PM UTC link Permalink

Thanks.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #247080We parted the best of friends..

Wir brachten die besten Freunde auseinander.

added by BraveSentry, September 15, 2012
➜ #247080We parted the best of friends.

linked by BraveSentry, September 15, 2012
➜ #5492957Ni disiris kiel plej bonaj amikoj.

linked by GrizaLeono, October 4, 2016
➜ #5492957Ni disiris kiel plej bonaj amikoj.

unlinked by Pfirsichbaeumchen, October 5, 2016
➜ #247080We parted the best of friends.

unlinked by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 29, 2024
➜ #12290657Ni disigis la plej bonajn amikojn.

linked by Pfirsichbaeumchen, January 29, 2024