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Gute Reise

English translation: Have a good trip!

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German term or phrase:Gute Reise
English translation:Have a good trip!
Entered by: Ulrike Lieder (X)

20:31 Jan 12, 2002
German to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary
German term or phrase: Gute Reise
Ich einen gute Gute Reise.
Werner Krenn
Have a good trip!
Explanation:
Did you mean
ich wünsche Ihnen (Dir) eine gute Reise ??

Like Kim, I'm puzzled by your question, so this is no more than an educated guess.
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Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 17:20
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Summary of answers provided
4 +12Have a good trip!
Ulrike Lieder (X)
4 +2I had a very good trip.
Kim Metzger
5Have a nice trip
GAK (X)
4Happy Travels!
JuttaDD (X)


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
I had a very good trip.


Explanation:
Your German sentence isn't in correct German. One possible German sentence would be Ich hatte eine sehr gute Reise. I had a very good trip.

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 22192

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nikki Graham
5 mins
agree  Elvira Stoianov
1 hr
agree  athena22
2 hrs
agree  Thomas Bollmann
2 hrs
disagree  Jan Liebelt: Although the German is incomplete, it seems to be saying something else.
23 hrs
  -> It's a good thing you can read minds.
disagree  jspierce: possibly: ich WUENSCHE dir/Ihnen eine gute Reise
1 day 9 hrs
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +12
Have a good trip!


Explanation:
Did you mean
ich wünsche Ihnen (Dir) eine gute Reise ??

Like Kim, I'm puzzled by your question, so this is no more than an educated guess.

Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 17:20
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 3525
Grading comment
Graded automatically based on peer agreement. KudoZ.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ursula Peter-Czichi: Seems like you covered everything!
38 mins
agree  Elvira Stoianov
1 hr
agree  Sonja Cooper (X)
1 hr
agree  athena22
1 hr
agree  Klaus Dorn (X): there's always the possibility of "ich werde eine gute Reise haben"...
1 hr
agree  John Kinory (X): Klaus: how about 'I wuerde eine gute Reise haben'? :-)
1 hr
agree  Thomas Bollmann
2 hrs
agree  Michaela Müller
3 hrs
agree  Dr.G.MD (X)
4 hrs
agree  Susan Starling
15 hrs
agree  Optical
19 hrs
agree  Jan Liebelt: Sounds about right. "Ich wünsche Ihnen eine gute Reise" means "Have a safe/nice trip".
23 hrs
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1 day 13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Have a nice trip


Explanation:
Own knowledge

GAK (X)
Local time: 02:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 102
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1 day 18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Happy Travels!


Explanation:
This is what Rick Steves would say for "have a good trip". :-)

JuttaDD (X)
PRO pts in pair: 12
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