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Did you enjoy the beer festival?

German translation: Hast Du beim Bierfest Spaß gehabt?

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English term or phrase:Did you enjoy the beer festival?
German translation:Hast Du beim Bierfest Spaß gehabt?
Entered by: Kim Metzger

15:33 Sep 28, 2001
English to German translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
English term or phrase: Did you enjoy the beer festival?
Question about how someone enjoyed their holidays
Nicholas Burns
Hast Du beim Bierfest spaß gehabt?
Explanation:
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 02:28
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Hast Du beim Bierfest spaß gehabt?
Kim Metzger
4 +2More info
Kim Metzger
4 +1Bier-Festival
Ulla Haufe


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Hast Du beim Bierfest spaß gehabt?


Explanation:
See below


    Enjoyed many a beer festival
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 02:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 2690
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ulrike Lieder (X): capitalize Spaß, though...
17 mins
agree  Hans-Henning Judek
1 hr
agree  shasas: My stomach refuses to remember *g*
7 hrs
agree  patpending: just got back myself, wait till tomorrow to ask this when the headache has gone!
2 days 22 hrs
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
More info


Explanation:
Nicholas, the translation I entered above is the way Germans would express the concept of *did you enjoy.* Actually Spaß means fun. So it would be more typical for a German to say *did you have fun at the beer festival* than did you enjoy it. Enjoy means genießen. So a literal translation would be *Hast Du das Bierfest genoßen?


    Bi-lingual background
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 02:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 2690

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mary Worby: But it's normally 'genossen' with a double s, isn't it?
10 hrs
  -> Was using old spelling as does the FAZ.
agree  Ulrike Lieder (X): Even with the old spelling, genossen has a double ss. (Rule of thumb: short vowel - ss; long vowel - ß)
16 hrs
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Bier-Festival


Explanation:
what for heaven's sake is a 'Bierfest'?
Oktoberfest? It seems to be a special event related to beer.

Ulla Haufe
Local time: 10:28
PRO pts in pair: 138

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kim Metzger: See www.andechser-bierfest.com
2 hrs
  -> tanks,colleagues...strange, unknown Bavarian customs....
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