z.E.

English translation: for example, for instance, e.g.

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German term or phrase:	z.E.
English translation:	for example, for instance, e.g.
Entered by:	Susan Welsh

17:08 Dec 27, 2009

German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / 18th century text

German term or phrase: z.E.

There may be an obvious answer to this, but if there is, I'm missing it in all the usual sources. This is from a 1776 lecture "On Genius" by Jakob Friedrich Abel, who was Schiller's teacher:

Herrscht nicht z. E. jene allmächtige Leidenschaft, die Weise und Toren, die Feige und Helden, die insbesondere die Lieblinge der Grazien, die Dichter schafft, am Mississippi wie an der Tiber?

p.s. - Does anybody know a way to force Google to include punctuation in a search (in this case, the periods)?

Thanks in advance, and happy new year!

Susan Welsh KudoZ activity Questions: 524 (none open) (22 closed without grading) Answers: 462 United States
Local time: 22:37

for example, for instance, e.g.

Explanation:
z.E. (zum Exempel, zum Exemplum) = etwas altmodische Form von "zum Beispiel" = for example, for instance, e.g.

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SusanneM
Local time: 04:37

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Thanks to all, and notably to Kim for the reference--Kim, you seems to be an inexhaustible fount of knowledge about how to find things on the Internet!
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for example, for instance, e.g.

SusanneM

e.g.

Christian Köstner (X)

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peer agreement (net): +15

z.E. (zum Exempel, zum Exemplum)

for example, for instance, e.g.

Explanation:
z.E. (zum Exempel, zum Exemplum) = etwas altmodische Form von "zum Beispiel" = for example, for instance, e.g.

Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZE

SusanneM
Local time: 04:37
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks to all, and notably to Kim for the reference--Kim, you seems to be an inexhaustible fount of knowledge about how to find things on the Internet!

16 hrs confidence:

e.g.

Explanation:
Google: "e.g. abbreviation" and it works with the punctuation :-)

Christian Köstner (X)
Germany
Local time: 04:37
Native speaker of: German

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for the Google tip! I still get ZE without periods, but it is limited to abbreviations. I tried z.E. Abkürzung and it actually did better, including yielding a useful Wikipedia page that I didn't know existed. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Abk%C3%BCrzung

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