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Dreiländereck

English translation: tri-state region

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German term or phrase:Dreiländereck
English translation:tri-state region
Entered by: gangels (X)

15:08 Mar 7, 2013
German to English translations [Non-PRO]
Geography / name given to German region(s)
German term or phrase: Dreiländereck
Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich

What would be most common? Tripoint/Tricorner/tripartite region??? or some other

Thank you for any suggestions.
gangels (X)
Local time: 03:50
tri-state region
Explanation:
As suggested, thanks. One might assume the context tells the reader that nation states are involved, not second-tier jurisdinctions like Bundesländer.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:45:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" might suggest something smaller.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:47:23 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" would suggest some smaller territory.
Selected response from:

Horst Huber (X)
United States
Local time: 05:50
Grading comment
Sounds most natural to me rather than tri-border or tripping. Perhaps tri-nation region would be possible, but so far, didn't get any feedback from client.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4tri-border region
Claudia Kirchner
4"three country corner"
Maureen Millington-Brodie
4border triangle
Kurt Kruger
3tripoint
freekfluweel
3tri-state region
Horst Huber (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
Why not
Kim Metzger

Discussion entries: 4





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
tri-border region


Explanation:
please see:
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=de&service=deen&op...


    Reference: http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=de&service=deen&op...
Claudia Kirchner
Austria
Local time: 11:50
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Martin, MA: Yes -or "tri-country region"
14 mins
agree  Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
32 mins
agree  writeaway: in anybody's Englisch/English
56 mins
neutral  Lancashireman: 'Tri-border' is a rather inelegant hybrid, IMO
1 hr
agree  Thayenga: :)
20 hrs
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"three country corner"


Explanation:
don't see what is wrong with this - I've seen it in use

Maureen Millington-Brodie
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tripoint


Explanation:
A tripoint, trijunction,[1] or triple point (also, if inexactly, known as a tri-border area), is a geographical point at which the borders of three countries or subnational entities meet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoint

(The Netherlands have only one tripoint: "drielandenpunt"
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drielandenpunt)

freekfluweel
Netherlands
Local time: 11:50
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
border triangle


Explanation:
In several web sites about the Tri-Countries Bridge between Weil am Rhein, Germany and Hüningen, France the area is referred to as the border triangle between these three countries.

Example sentence(s):
  • In the border triangle of southwest Germany, this new pedestrian bridge across the Rhine River near Basel was opened in March 2007.
  • In the border triangle of southwest Germany, a new pedestrian bridge across the Rhine River was opened in March 2007.

    Reference: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iabse/sei/2010/0000002...
    Reference: http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/Ou...
Kurt Kruger
Local time: 17:50
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
tri-state region


Explanation:
As suggested, thanks. One might assume the context tells the reader that nation states are involved, not second-tier jurisdinctions like Bundesländer.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:45:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" might suggest something smaller.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:47:23 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" would suggest some smaller territory.

Horst Huber (X)
United States
Local time: 05:50
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Sounds most natural to me rather than tri-border or tripping. Perhaps tri-nation region would be possible, but so far, didn't get any feedback from client.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: tri-state region. as in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut?
3 hrs
  -> About the size of it. Thanks.
neutral  Lancashireman: Klaus appears to be ignoring his own source text by asking for this to be posted: Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich
3 hrs
  -> Of course "-eck" has a cozy tone to it. Thanks.
neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: who needs natives?
3 days 2 hrs
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Reference comments


2 mins peer agreement (net): +2
Reference: Why not

Reference information:
enter your term in the KudoZ glossary search? There are four entries already.

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http://www.proz.com/search/

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 68

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  writeaway: thought it was asked before. Sounds very familiar in any case (maybe because I lived an a Dreiländereck: Germany/ Switzerland/France). a very well-known German term in any case /nope
57 mins
agree  philgoddard: Sadly, this is not the consensus view. In my experience, most people think that every use of a word is a different context and therefore justifies a new question.
2 hrs
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