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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

ungenügend, mangelhaft

English translation:

unsatisfactory, poor

Dec 3, 2003 02:36
20 yrs ago
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German term

ungenügend, mangelhaft

German to English Other Education / Pedagogy
certificate - how to explain the difference?
Proposed translations (English)
5 +9 unsatisfactory, poor
4 +5 deficient, insuffucient
4 +3 pass/-non-pass/fail
5 wanted to add this in my comment above
Change log

Sep 10, 2015 14:24: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Education / Pedagogy"

Proposed translations

+9
4 hrs
German term (edited): ungen�gend, mangelhaft
Selected

unsatisfactory, poor

Those were two of the gradings when I was at school.
If you had one these dreaded words on your report card or end of year certificate, you were scared to go home.
Peer comment(s):
agree Lori Dendy-Molz : I think these are still the most commonly used terms.
42 mins
Yes? some things never change. Thoght by now they would have been modernised like, um, understated value agenda, or low level transparency factor or something.
agree Mario Marcolin : a rose is a rose
1 hr
Does that include the genetically modified ones?
agree cologne
2 hrs
agree jerrie : unsatisfactory, poor or even fail!
3 hrs
agree Natalie Chandler : This is the UK standard
4 hrs
agree Franziska
10 hrs
agree Nicole Tata : with Natalie
11 hrs
neutral Ellen Zittinger : ungen
20 hrs
agree writeaway : standard report card speak
21 hrs
agree Jan Schauseil
1 day 1 hr
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+5
9 mins

deficient, insuffucient

sehr gut, gut, befriedigend, ausreichend, mangelhaft, ungenügend

very good, good, satisfactory, sufficient, deficient, insuffucient
Reference:

http://www.uni-erlangen.de/internationales/auslandsaufenthalte/studiumimausland/forms/Abi-ues.pdf

Peer comment(s):
agree wrtransco
2 hrs
neutral swisstell : I'll agree with insuffIcient only
3 hrs
agree Boris Nedkov : insufficient seems the best choice
3 hrs
agree Lori Dendy-Molz : deficient (lacking) and insufficient (inadequate)-slight difference, both needed, I think.
4 hrs
agree Renate FitzRoy : main difference between m. and u: m can be redeemed by a good mark somewhere else. U is a clean fail
7 hrs
agree Jan Schauseil
1 day 5 hrs
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+3
29 mins

pass/-non-pass/fail

or the difference between a D and F (fail)US
Peer comment(s):
agree Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
2 hrs
agree asti
3 hrs
neutral Heidi Stone-Schaller : I actually remember both of them being "fail"--mangelhaft is 5, ungenügend is 6 and they both fail you
11 hrs
I recall a student receiving a "pass" for a subject transfered as to US with a grade of "mangelhaft"
agree Jan Schauseil
1 day 5 hrs
thanks to all
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2 hrs
German term (edited): ungen�gend, mangelhaft

wanted to add this in my comment above

insufficient

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Note added at 2 hrs 30 mins (2003-12-03 05:07:23 GMT)
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to -- tooo late! :-)
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