Перевод для "privat gewesen" на английский

Privat gewesen

• been private
• been privately

Примеры перевода

been private

Er hatte stets geglaubt, ein Mann mit einer Privatsphäre zu sein, aber jetzt sah er, daß bis dahin nichts in seinem Leben privat gewesen war.
He had always thought of himself as a private man, but now he saw that there was nothing in his life before that had been private.

Sein Tod war sehr privat gewesen: Er hatte sich buchstäblich aufs Totenbett gelegt (erst da begriff ich die konkrete Wirklichkeit hinter der Metapher).
His death had been private: there had literally been a deathbed (which struck me at the time, because I had only ever thought of the expression as a metaphor).