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Schiffer

English translation: skipper/mariner


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German term or phrase:Schiffer
English translation:skipper/mariner
Entered by: Marie Lowrie
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14:35 Aug 2, 2003
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Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Shipping
German term or phrase: Schiffer
Shipper? Shipping Merchant? Any ideas, when someone has had to take a citizen's oath for this profession.
Marie Lowrie
Local time: 09:55
skipper / mariner
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United States
Local time: 03:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2skipper / mariner
ntext
5Boat Operator
Sanaa Omrany
4Langenscheidt says...
Cilian O'Tuama
4Master mariner
Christine Slattery
4ship master
Kim Metzger
3sailor (inland waters)
jerrie
3boatmanEdithK


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
skipper / mariner


Explanation:
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    LEO, dict.cc, dicdata
ntext
United States
Local time: 03:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 44

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  SwissTell: skipper
3 mins

neutral  EdithK: Skipper is a new profession and has not much in common with the job some 50 / 80 years ago.
9 mins

agree  Nicole Trebbin: skipper
6 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ship master


Explanation:
Or master mariner. For a river boat he or she is a barge captain. I used to wash dishes in the Lübeck Schiffersgesellschaft.


    Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 03:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Master mariner


Explanation:
as member of the guild

Christine Slattery
Local time: 04:55
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 24
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sailor (inland waters)


Explanation:
is given in the link (with Buergerseid - citizen's oath)..

Other on-line dictionaries give: mariner, sailor, skipper, sea captain, boatman....


    Reference: http://thorin.adnc.com/~lynnd/vuword.html
jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:55
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boatman


Explanation:
I would say here as this refers to an old profession and has not much in common with today~s skipper, mariners etc.

EdithK
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 106
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Boat Operator


Explanation:
just, dear..it's the person who leads boats, yachts.......

Sanaa Omrany
Egypt
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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Langenscheidt says...


Explanation:
Schiffer m sailor; (Schiffsführer) navigator; (Handelsschiffskapitän) skipper; (Flußschiffer) boatman



Cilian O'Tuama
Local time: 10:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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