Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Da kam mein kleiner Sohn mit einem Zander, den er an der Schnur hoch hielt, ange
English translation:
My young son ran up with a walleye dangling from his line
German term
United States
Computer/IT, Telecom, Tourism
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Spanish 
Works in: German to English, Spanish to English, Italian to English
Da kam mein kleiner Sohn mit einem Zander, den er an der Schnur hoch hielt, ange
I am just confused as to what "angelaufen" here refers to.
| 4 +6 | My young son ran up with a walleye dangling from his line |
philgoddard
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| 3 +3 | At that point, my young son came running over (to me) |
Michael Martin, MA
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Jul 26, 2013 19:05: Carmen Lawrence changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Jul 26, 2013 20:28: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Fisheries" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" , "Field (write-in)" from "Fishing (in general)" to "grammar/vocabulary: past participle of German verb"
Non-PRO (3): freekfluweel, philgoddard, Carmen Lawrence
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Proposed translations
United States
Six languages into flawless English
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 4 more.
My young son ran up with a walleye dangling from his line
http://dict.leo.org/#/search=anlaufen&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=basic&multiwordShowSingle=on
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Edith Kelly
: A zander in proper BE English is a pikeperch, I do not need to look it up, I simply know it from eating it, a walley is a "amerikanerischer Zander", so without any knowledge where the beast was caught .....
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It has lots of different translations, but the question is about " angelaufen" http://dict.leo.org/#/search=zander&searchLoc=0&resultOrder=... And the asker is in the US, so I doubt whether he wants British English..
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writeaway
: with Edith. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110526075609AA... a little kid could land a perch but not walleye /you angled for trouble by offering a complete translation when 'angelaufen was the only announced problem. :-)
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I should have known everyone would start being pedantic (and Eurocentric) about fish...
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Phoebe Indetzki
: "ran up" is spot on for "angelaufen". Asker wasn't interested in the Zander.
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Exactly. Thank you.
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Kevin Fulton
: Best way to start an argument among translators is offer a translation of the name of a fish species
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:-)
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Trudy Peters
: with phoeberuth. I might add 'to me'
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Nicola Wood
: Definitely right for the angelaufen. I'm not going to get into any argument about fish species, the asker can sort that one out ;-)
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Helen Shiner
: With phoeberuth, too.
23 hrs
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David Moore (X)
: I'm with phoeberuth too
2 days 13 hrs
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Cilian O'Tuama
: "er kam angelaufen" is the term and it doesn't have anything to do with angeln/fishing - maybe that was Asker's problem.
2 days 15 hrs
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United States
Creativity wins in the long run
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) , English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
At that point, my young son came running over (to me)
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writeaway
: the most natural way? wow
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Mistake not only good translators should avoid: trying to please everyone..
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Horst Huber (X)
: "Came running", is more accurate; don`t know where dangling comes from, the son held it up for the speaker to take notice.
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MiriamT (X)
: yes!
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Klaus Schmirler
1 day 2 hrs
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Discussion
http://www.dict.cc/?s=angelaufen
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ADJ angelaufen | - | - ...
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VERB anlaufen | lief an/anlief | angelaufen
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tarnished {adj} {past-p} 19angelaufen
initiated {adj} {past-p} angelaufen
tinged {adj} {past-p} [metal etc.] angelaufen [Metall etc.]
to come running sofort angelaufen kommen
This is taken from a story about fishing, where the man is describing his son coming back to him after catching a walleye fish (Zander).
I am just confused as to what "angelaufen" here refers to.