Es wird immer nur öder und hoffnungsloser hier um das Fährhaus.«.
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It's just becoming more and more dreary and hopeless here at the ferry house."
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3Bn37Arty • 14436
10 months, 1 week ago
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It just became more and more dreary and hopeless here at the ferry house.
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3Bn37Arty • 14436
10 months, 2 weeks ago
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It only became more and more dreary and hopeless here at the ferry house.
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3Bn37Arty • 14436
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Discussion
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by Merlin57 10 months, 1 week agoThanks Wendy. I completely missed the fact that the sentence was part of a conversation!
by 3Bn37Arty 10 months, 1 week agoHello Tom, if you read this sentence in context, you will see that it is part of a conversation and that someone is speaking in the 'present tense' . He is describing what it is like in the ferry house now, not how it was in the past.
by Merlin57 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis is the continuation of his sentence: Afterwards I thought it would sound even more natural if it was written so:
It's just becoming more and more dreary and hopeless here at the ferry house." (Don't forget the quotation marks at the end of the sentence, because this is where he finishes speaking.
Wendy, Even though the German verb is in the Präsens tense I prefer to translate using the English past tense in a story narrative.
by 3Bn37Arty 10 months, 2 weeks agoTom, as this is part of a conversation, may I suggest:
by Merlin57 10 months, 2 weeks agoIt just becomes more and more dreary and hopeless here at the ferry house."