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iambic pentameter

German translation: jambischer Pentameter

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English term or phrase:iambic pentameter
German translation:jambischer Pentameter
Entered by: Astrid Elke Witte

10:52 Jun 19, 2001
English to German translations [PRO]
Art/Literary
English term or phrase: iambic pentameter
This is the most common regular rhythm of English poetry written in the 19th century. I would like to know what an iambic pentameter is called in German, please.
Astrid Elke Witte
Germany
Local time: 14:57
jambisches Pentameter
Explanation:
Surprising, isn't it?! It's all the same, and all Greek to me. During high school, out teachers pestered us with stuff like this (at the school I attended, Greek was mandatory). You see, it's not only the English poets that used it; the actual perpetrators were the Greeks - and it wasn't Alexis Zorbas!

Good luck!
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Türkiye
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Thankyou, Volkmar! I was at one time one of those teachers who pestered their students with such stuff, but that was in Scotland.

I take it from the comment added to your first answer by someone else that the gender of "Pentameter" in German depends on which part of Germany you come from. I am by now used to the fact that not all German words have a fixed gender.

Thanks for answering so quickly, while I was still online!

Astrid
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Summary of answers provided
najambisches Pentameter
LegalTrans D
najambischer Pentameter
Dierk Seeburg
najambische_r_ Pentameter, sorry, typo!
LegalTrans D
najambischer Pentameter
Vesna Zivcic


  

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10 mins
jambisches Pentameter


Explanation:
Surprising, isn't it?! It's all the same, and all Greek to me. During high school, out teachers pestered us with stuff like this (at the school I attended, Greek was mandatory). You see, it's not only the English poets that used it; the actual perpetrators were the Greeks - and it wasn't Alexis Zorbas!

Good luck!


    high school
LegalTrans D
Türkiye
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 2342
Grading comment
Thankyou, Volkmar! I was at one time one of those teachers who pestered their students with such stuff, but that was in Scotland.

I take it from the comment added to your first answer by someone else that the gender of "Pentameter" in German depends on which part of Germany you come from. I am by now used to the fact that not all German words have a fixed gender.

Thanks for answering so quickly, while I was still online!

Astrid

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Stefan Brechtel: leo's dic says it's "das Pentameter," not "der"
5 mins
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11 mins
jambischer Pentameter


Explanation:
This is how I learned it in Classical Greek class anyway :->

Cheerio,
Dierk


    Reference: http://www.epd.de/film/2000/12hamlet.htm
    Reference: http://www.foxfilm.de/filmarchiv/looking_for_richard/produkt...
Dierk Seeburg
Local time: 06:57
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 130
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15 mins
jambische_r_ Pentameter, sorry, typo!


Explanation:
Sorry, I pulled the trigger too fast and didn't realize my typing error. Incidentally, just as a titbit: pentameter in German is
'fünffüßiger Vers' (but everybody says Pentameter).

Good luck!

LegalTrans D
Türkiye
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 2342
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18 mins
jambischer Pentameter


Explanation:
der Pentameter


1.... Er hat die Zeit, die Leute und auch die Ereignisse verändert. Jambischer Pentameter (iambic pentameter): Eine Versform, in der jede zweite Silbe betont ist


    [PDF] www2.mitp.de/2879/2897_Schum.pdf
Vesna Zivcic
Local time: 14:57
Native speaker of: Croatian
PRO pts in pair: 395
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