Knochenarbeit

English translation: back-breaking work

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German term or phrase:Knochenarbeit
English translation:back-breaking work
Entered by: Christine Lam

12:59 May 17, 2006
German to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
German term or phrase: Knochenarbeit
Holzstamme holen war für mich knochenarbeit. Aber wir hilten durch, un die Zwefler sind seit langem verstummt.
Jianming Sun
Local time: 16:49
back-breaking work
Explanation:
Having filled his canoe to the brink of sinking, Festus takes it back to shore to begin the back-breaking work of shovelling the wet sand into a pile. ...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/africa_the_sands_of_gondama/html/3.stm - 9k
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Christine Lam
Local time: 04:49
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3 +7back-breaking work
Christine Lam
4dead-hard work/really grafting work
Terence Ajbro


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knochenarbeit
dead-hard work/really grafting work


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Terence Ajbro
Sweden
Local time: 10:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +7
knochenarbeit
back-breaking work


Explanation:
Having filled his canoe to the brink of sinking, Festus takes it back to shore to begin the back-breaking work of shovelling the wet sand into a pile. ...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/africa_the_sands_of_gondama/html/3.stm - 9k

Christine Lam
Local time: 04:49
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maureen Millington-Brodie
2 mins

agree  Alison Jenner
8 mins

agree  Tanja K
41 mins

agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X)
1 hr

agree  Rebecca Garber
2 hrs

agree  Laurel Porter (X): Indeed - or even just "really hard work".
3 hrs

agree  Johanna Timm, PhD
3 hrs
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