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eingehütet

English translation: housesitting/babysitting/minding the house and kids

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German term or phrase:	eingehütet
English translation:	housesitting/babysitting/minding the house and kids
Entered by:	Rebecca Holmes

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08:45 Jul 26, 2005

German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

German term or phrase: eingehütet

Als wir zu Hause ankamen, Oma und Opa hatten mal wieder Haus und Kinder "eingehuetet," wie meine Mutter immer zu sagen pflegte, hatten meine Brueder fuer mich ein grosses Transparent ueber der Eingangstuer angebracht...

obviously a synonym for "watched over," but I'm wondering first of all why it's in quotation marks in the original; and if perhaps its regional and/or an idiom.

Tegan Raleigh KudoZ activity Questions: 557 (9 open) (2 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 91 United States
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minding the house and kids

Explanation:
I think the English term would be housesitting for the one and babysitting for the other. In combination, however, I think you would just say grandma and grandpa had been minding the house and children again" or some such.