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Englisch > Deutsch
old
1. Adjektiv:
2. [1] alt
[1] How old are you?
Wie alt bist du?
[1] How old do you think she is?
Für wie alt halten Sie sie?
Englisch > Englisch
old
1. adj. Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
an old abandoned building;  an old friend
2. adj.          Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
a wrinkled old man
3. adj.          Of a perishable item, having existed for most, or more than its shelf life.
an old loaf of bread
4. adj. Of an item that has been used and so is not new (unused).
I find that an old toothbrush is good to clean the keyboard with.
5. adj. Having existed or lived for the specified time.
How old are they? She’s five years old and he's seven. We also have a young teen and a two-year-old child.
My great-grandfather lived to be a hundred and one years old.
6. adj. Of an earlier time.:
7. adj.          Former, previous.
My new car is not as good as my old one.  a school reunion for Old Etonians
8. adj.          That is no longer in existence.
The footpath follows the route of an old railway line.
9. adj.          Obsolete; out-of-date.
That is the old way of doing things; now we do it this way.
10. adj.          Familiar.
When he got drunk and quarrelsome they just gave him the old heave-ho.
11. adj. Tiresome.
Your constant pestering is getting old.
12. adj. Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
13. adj. A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
We're having a good old time. My next car will be a big old SUV.  My wife makes the best little old apple pie in Texas.
14. adj. (obsolete) Excessive, abundant.
15. subst. (with "the") People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A civilised society should always look after the old in the community.
Deutsch > Englisch
alt
1. adj. old
Wie alt bist du? - How old are you?
2. adj. ancient
3. adj. elderly (inflected in the comparative)
ältere Menschen - the elderly

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Can a two-year-old boy run that fast?      Kann ein zwei Jahre alter Junge so schnell rennen? Now the old lady lives alone.      Nun lebt die alte Dame alleine. It's a shame the way old people are treated.      Es ist eine Schande, wie man alte Menschen behandelt. I like the new house more than the old.      Das neue Haus gefällt mir besser als das alte. He is an old hand at that work.      Was diese Arbeit betrifft, ist er ein alter Hase.

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