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German: Ausfall der Außenanbindung

English translation: failure of the external power connection






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German term or phrase:Ausfall der Außenanbindung
English translation:failure of the external power connection
Entered by:Steffen Walter
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German term or phrase: Ausfall der Außenanbindung
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Die stromeinspeisung erfolgt redundant und kann auch bei ausfall der aussenanbindung ohne unterbrechung weiterbetrieben werden:
My attempt: The power input is therefore redundant and even in the case of external connection power failure, the system can still be operated without interruption
Sian Herrera-Delgado
United Kingdom
failure of the external power connection
Explanation:
Just a restructuring of the word order to get away from the German-style 'nominalization'.

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Note added at 34 mins (2007-03-30 11:52:48 GMT)
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Or: "even if the external power connection fails"

(to avoid "in [the] case of failure of" which might seem awkward to some with two instances of "of")
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rjbemben
United States
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3 +2failure of the external power connectionrjbemben


  

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ausfall der aussenanbindung
failure of the external power connection


Explanation:
Just a restructuring of the word order to get away from the German-style 'nominalization'.

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Note added at 34 mins (2007-03-30 11:52:48 GMT)
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Or: "even if the external power connection fails"

(to avoid "in [the] case of failure of" which might seem awkward to some with two instances of "of")

rjbemben
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
thank you!
Notes to answerer
Asker: oh please, Marcus, let's not be quite so pedantic!


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