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Bürgerfamilie

English translation: middle class family

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German term or phrase:Bürgerfamilie
English translation:middle class family
Entered by: Kim Metzger

14:20 Oct 5, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: Bürgerfamilie
Wir waren eine typische Wiener Bürgerfamilie.

I'm tempted just to leave the Bürger out...
jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 11:32
middle-class family
Explanation:
One meaning of Bürger is bourgeouis.
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:32
Grading comment
How could I even think of leaving the burger out of a McFamily meal! D'oh! Bad day, funny five minutes...(and I used 'well to do', later on - it was absolutely perfect! Making it all a worthwhile exercise after all!)
Thanks!!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +9middle-class family
Kim Metzger
4 +2middle-class / well-to-do family
Edith Kelly
4bourgeois family
D D (X)


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
Bürgerfamilie
middle-class family


Explanation:
One meaning of Bürger is bourgeouis.


    Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 04:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 127
Grading comment
How could I even think of leaving the burger out of a McFamily meal! D'oh! Bad day, funny five minutes...(and I used 'well to do', later on - it was absolutely perfect! Making it all a worthwhile exercise after all!)
Thanks!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Pollex (X): "Burger" might be misinterpreted as something to eat, even in this context. :-)
5 mins
  -> A McBurgher family?
agree  Jirina Nevosadova
6 mins
agree  IanW (X)
14 mins
agree  David Moore (X): - See, Kim - I said it was rubbish; it can't even spell....
28 mins
  -> Wrong Langenscheidt. This one's Muret-Sanders, not Technik and it's me who can't spell bourgeois.
agree  Norbert Hermann
1 hr
agree  Michele Johnson
1 hr
agree  elzosim
1 hr
agree  Anglo-German (X)
2 hrs
agree  AngieD
3 hrs
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
middle-class / well-to-do family


Explanation:
The latter I've heard especially in Ireland.

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Note added at 2003-10-05 14:30:15 (GMT)
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... Cons: none. “In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked
to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. ...
www.epinions.com/book_mu-2352850/display
... The bride\'s sister, Vives, caused a stir in this well-to-do family when she married
a French man without a hint of a grand wedding, much to her parent\'s ...
www.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2003/1002/fe21-1.html

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 12:32
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jirina Nevosadova
5 mins
agree  IanW (X): Agree with "middle class", but I think "well-to-do" is a notch higher in the income stakes
13 mins
  -> Hi Ian, I don't think so, the Vienna Bürgerfamilien were quite well off.
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bourgeois family


Explanation:
a little bit ironic - Vienna


    Reference: http://dict.leo.org/?p=/37m..&search=bourgeois
D D (X)
Local time: 11:32
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
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