initial investment

German translation: könnte es das sein? s.u.

14:40 Feb 1, 2002
English to German translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Automation & Robotics / Mess und Automatisierungstechnik
English term or phrase: initial investment
To protect your initial investment, verify that your driver software has proven interoperability with GPIB
jars2000
Germany
Local time: 09:14
German translation:könnte es das sein? s.u.
Explanation:
Zum Schutz Ihrer bereits installierten Komponenten...

(Könnte das mit diesem Text gemeint sein? Vielleicht könnte auch ein wenig mehr Kontext weiterhelfen...)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Erstinvestition
Rudolf Kräuter
5unnötige Ausgaben
Dorita Zarrath
4anfangliche Investition
Alison Schwitzgebel
4ursprüngliche Investition
Birgit Gerdes (X)
4könnte es das sein? s.u.
hph
4 -1Vorableistung
Kathi Stock


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Vorableistung


Explanation:
thats how I would understand it

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Note added at 2002-02-01 15:11:19 (GMT)
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it is not in the meaning of an Investment...I think it is meant more in terms of Leistung erbringen

Kathi Stock
United States
Local time: 03:14
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Heinz Nessizius: if you BUY the driver make sure it is compatibel. so this is a monetary investment
6 days
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
anfangliche Investition


Explanation:
is what I would say

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Note added at 2002-02-01 15:19:07 (GMT)
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or ursprungliche Investition would be another possibility

Alison Schwitzgebel
France
Local time: 09:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Erstinvestition


Explanation:
oder einfach Investition

- soweit ich verstehe, geht es darum, ein Gerät (=Investition) zu schützen, indem man zuvor die Interoperabilität der Software überprüft


Rudolf Kräuter
Local time: 09:14
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ZOLTÁN PARRAGH
9 mins

agree  Christine Healy-Rendel (X): s.a. Eurodicautom dictionary
8 hrs

agree  Sabine Tietge
11 hrs

agree  Heinz Nessizius
6 days
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ursprüngliche Investition


Explanation:
just another possibility

Birgit Gerdes (X)
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
unnötige Ausgaben


Explanation:
"initial investment" (Anschaffungskosten / Erstinvestition / Anfangskapital) würde ich hier nicht direkt übersetzen, sondern den Satz etwas freier wiedergeben:
"Um sich vor unnögigen Ausgaben zu schützen, sollten Sie prüfen,..."


    Sch�fer: Wirtschaftsenglisch
Dorita Zarrath
Germany
Local time: 09:14
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Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
könnte es das sein? s.u.


Explanation:
Zum Schutz Ihrer bereits installierten Komponenten...

(Könnte das mit diesem Text gemeint sein? Vielleicht könnte auch ein wenig mehr Kontext weiterhelfen...)

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