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Bodenständigkeit

English translation: down to earth

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German term or phrase:Bodenständigkeit
English translation:down to earth
Entered by: Martin Wenzel

16:45 Mar 24, 2009
German to English translations [Non-PRO]
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German term or phrase: Bodenständigkeit
Einrichtung und Dekoration wurden mit Liebe zum Detail an Heimat und Bodenständigkeit angepasst.

rootedness to one's native soil is the dic. answer, but I don't like this here
Martin Wenzel
Germany
Local time: 15:14
down to earth
Explanation:
This is how I would translate it. Bodenständigkeit is a term often used to describe people who stick with the customes and ways of traditional thrifty communities - Heimat and all that.
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Donal Murphy-Bokern
Germany
Local time: 15:14
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +6down to earth
Donal Murphy-Bokern
4 +1home and rootedness
casper (X)
3 +1native deep-rootedness
Marga Shaw
4unpretentiousness
Slindon
3 +1home and hearth
Anne-Marie Grant (X)
3add a rustic feel
RegineMac


  

Answers


7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
down to earth


Explanation:
This is how I would translate it. Bodenständigkeit is a term often used to describe people who stick with the customes and ways of traditional thrifty communities - Heimat and all that.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_Earth
Donal Murphy-Bokern
Germany
Local time: 15:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 11
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingrun Wenge
10 mins
agree  Edith Kelly
12 mins
agree  Inge Meinzer
18 mins
agree  pme
49 mins
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X)
1 hr
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
4 hrs
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
native deep-rootedness


Explanation:

... might be a possibilty.

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Note added at 33 mins (2009-03-24 17:19:46 GMT)
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Example of "deep-rootedness":

and Vladimir Nabokov, the “equation of a single pivot of language, of native deep-rootedness, with poetic authority is again in doubt” ...
www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi/Czarnecki Kristin Kommers...



Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:14
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  KARIN ISBELL
1 hr
  -> Thank you, Karin!
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Heimat und Bodenständigkeit
home and rootedness


Explanation:
"Dislocations and Multiculturalisms seeks to address the most ancient problems of human society as well as the greatest challenges of our times: problems which nag at us and confront us in our everyday world as the contest for space amongst warring opposing forces sharpens, and concepts like self, cultural memory, linearity and continuity, home and rootedness, alienation and belonging clamour for re-definitions.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dislocations-Multiculturalisms-Jasbi...



A fictional exposé of the ways in which the experiences of metropolitan exile impinge upon and displace the sense of home and rootedness.
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/travellit/azentriesc.html



It thereby demonstrates the subjectivities of notions of belonging and place in the context of everyday transnationalism, and the importance of both social networks and shared interests regarding feelings of home and rootedness.
http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/publications/Working papers/WP080...

casper (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anne-Marie Grant (X): this is how I understand it
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Anne-Marie Grant :-)
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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
unpretentiousness


Explanation:
I think it's a good translation for Bodenständigkeit, but you'd have to fiddle around a bit to fit it into your sentence.

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Note added at 56 mins (2009-03-24 17:42:06 GMT)
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I think I'll abandon unpretentious. How about 'The love of detail evident in the furnishings and decor reflected a rootedness in the native region.'

Slindon
Germany
Local time: 15:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
add a rustic feel


Explanation:
How about this?

RegineMac
United States
Local time: 06:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 12
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
home and hearth


Explanation:
It seems to me that the writer wants to evoke a feeling of warmth and hospitality, reminiscent of one's memories of their 'native soil'...It's stronger than 'down to earth', in my opinion.

Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Local time: 14:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
11 hrs
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