German term
fährt den Rhein hinauf
The ship sails upstream...?
| 4 +7 | sails up the Rhine River |
Anja Wulf (X)
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| 5 -4 | cruises upstream the Rhin River |
Ines R.
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Non-PRO (1): Cilian O'Tuama
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Proposed translations
sails up the Rhine River
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casper (X)
: "sails up the Rhine"
59 mins
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Nicole Schnell
: Without River, though (see my comment to INES).
1 hr
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Ramey Rieger (X)
: yes, with Nicole - no river, just Rhine
1 hr
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Armorel Young
: just "sails up the Rhine"
3 hrs
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Jenny Streitparth
4 hrs
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Sabine Akabayov, PhD
10 hrs
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Maureen Millington-Brodie
: no River or the other way River Rhine is the English collocation
14 hrs
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cruises upstream the Rhin River
the ship cruises upstream the Rhin River.
the term "sails or is sailing" to use only for a sailing boat
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Nicole Schnell
: Rhine (without River), not Rhin River (which contains a typo and based on its etymology would mean River River.
1 hr
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Anja Wulf (X)
: "Upstream" and "downstream" are not prepositions, so you cannot say "he/it cruises upstream the river".
1 hr
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Kim Metzger
: "The Titanic sailed to Cherbourg in France and later to Queenstown in Ireland to pick up additional passengers."
1 hr
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Armorel Young
: not cruises, not upstream, not Rhin
4 hrs
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Lancashireman
: Wildly inaccurate.
6 hrs
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Cilian O'Tuama
: down the Swanee
8 hrs
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