It girl
German translation: "das" Mädchen
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|  Selected response from: Klaus Dorn (X) Local time: 00:10 | ||||||
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| na +1 | Sorry - can only offer an explanation! |
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"das" Mädchen Explanation: Ich werde "das" Mädchen der Lüfte sein. Important to emphasize "das" here, if you can, write it in italics. Or: Ich werde in den Lüften "in" sein. Really difficult without more context. |
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Sorry - can only offer an explanation! Explanation: ...as a reaction to the first response: in England, an "It" girl is a girl about town, very fashionable, always at parties, very popular, loads of money, very often of aristocratic background. To me the term evokes a lot of glitter and glamour, champagne and so forth. My German is not so colourful that I could come up with a good translation - but I hope this helps to get a term with the above connotations. PS The current It girl, if you wish to research the topic, is Lady Victoria Hervey, who columns her exploits in the Sunday Times Style supplement. Her predecessor was the famed Tara Palmer-Tompkinson, who left to nurse her over-exercised liver in a very secluded, very expensive rehabilitation clinic. K. Consumption of glossy magazines; Sunday Times "Style" supplement, sadly unavailable in Germany! |
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"IT" Mädchen Explanation: Probably an untranslatable double meaning (popular girl - information technology girl). My geriatric brain. |
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It-Girl Explanation: Sorry, but Klaus is totally wrong here!!! Why translate "it" as "das"? The sentence refers to Karin's explanation. At the moment you can hear a lot about the It-Girls in Germany, we even have a girl group named "It-Girls", produced by Dieter Bohlen. |
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