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Kein Kind von Traurigkeit

English translation: to possess a naturally happy and carefree disposition

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German term or phrase:Kein Kind von Traurigkeit
English translation:to possess a naturally happy and carefree disposition
Entered by: SeiTT

16:01 Jan 20, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Telenovela
German term or phrase: Kein Kind von Traurigkeit
Greetings,

This is one example:

http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Arthur Kein Kind von Tr...
Arthur – Kein Kind von Traurigkeit

But it was also used by a murderer from a rich background in "Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen" to confess that he had no excuse: Ich bin kein Kind von Traurigkeit

All the best, and many thanks,

Simon
SeiTT
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:27
to possess a naturally happy and carefree disposition
Explanation:
According to my Duden: ‘Wer kein Kind von Traurigkeit ist, hat ein fröhliches und unbekümmertes Naturell’ Duden - Das große Buch der Zitate und Redewendungen, Mannheim 2002 [CD-ROM].

As regards the murderer in 'Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen', he’s probably suggesting that nothing in his background such as a very disadvantaged childhood would account for his having become a killer.
Selected response from:

Annett Kottek (X)
United Kingdom
Grading comment
many thanks excellent
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2to possess a naturally happy and carefree disposition
Annett Kottek (X)
2 +3not one given to moping around
gangels (X)
4to know how to enjoy oneself
editorpohl
3I know how to enjoy myself
Jumplanguage
3life and soul of the party
British Diana
3no one prone to sulling
Thayenga
3A happy-go-lucky child
Andrea Garfield-Barkworth
Summary of reference entries provided
zur freudigen Erinnerung
Johanna Timm, PhD

Discussion entries: 11





  

Answers


26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
not one given to moping around


Explanation:
someone who never turns down a good time

gangels (X)
Local time: 05:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jumplanguage: just as good as my idea
3 mins
agree  Lonnie Legg
4 hrs
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
12 hrs
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
I know how to enjoy myself


Explanation:
from a discussion on Leo


    Reference: http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=129...
Jumplanguage
Germany
Local time: 13:27
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
life and soul of the party


Explanation:
You question does not say whether you need the translation generally or for a particular situation (hence my CL)

But my possibility is sometimes exactly right.

British Diana
Germany
Local time: 13:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
no one prone to sulling


Explanation:
One who is open to all kinds of mischief.



Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 13:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: How does one ‘sull’? Is the past participle form ‘sulled’ or ‘sullen’? If the latter, then a ‘sullen child’ is one who has been ‘sulled’ him or herself. Maybe they then go on to ‘sull’ others? Sorry if this just sounds like a lot of pointless ‘sulling’.
4 hrs
neutral  Jim Tucker (X): I think you mean "not one for sulking around"
21 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Kein Kind von Traurigkeit sein
to possess a naturally happy and carefree disposition


Explanation:
According to my Duden: ‘Wer kein Kind von Traurigkeit ist, hat ein fröhliches und unbekümmertes Naturell’ Duden - Das große Buch der Zitate und Redewendungen, Mannheim 2002 [CD-ROM].

As regards the murderer in 'Alisa – Folge deinem Herzen', he’s probably suggesting that nothing in his background such as a very disadvantaged childhood would account for his having become a killer.


Annett Kottek (X)
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
many thanks excellent

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lancashireman
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Andrew. And here you find another child of woe! [Oh no..]
agree  DFTS (X): I agree that it is either your answer, or if in the context of the murderer as you explained about not having a disadvantaged childhood: "didn't grow up in poverty/rags"
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Dave122. Bernhard has looked up the context and it seems that what the murderer had been trying to say was that he, too, had been a good-time boy.
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
A happy-go-lucky child


Explanation:
Easy going, carefree, nonchalant.


    Reference: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=happy-go-luck...
Andrea Garfield-Barkworth
Germany
Local time: 13:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  British Diana: Does it have to be a child??
16 mins
  -> Err, no, didn't mean to put the child in, sorry. Or the "A" in that case.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to know how to enjoy oneself


Explanation:
das ist die genaue uebersetzung des sprichwortes

editorpohl
Local time: 06:27
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lancashireman: Die *genaue* Übersetzung wäre „not a child of sadness“. // Jim: nein = no; kein = notter
36 mins
neutral  Jim Tucker (X): @ Andrew: actually, if we're talking precision here, it would be the more emphatic "no child of sadness"/ lol
1 hr
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Reference comments


6 hrs
Reference: zur freudigen Erinnerung

Reference information:
http://deu.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/idioms_maxims_sa...

Johanna Timm, PhD
Canada
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20
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