Translation for "if were" to german

If were

• wenn wäre
• gäbe

Translation examples

wenn wäre

They said they were, they were—
Sie sagten, sie wären … sie wären …

Would it were so, would it were so.
Wenn es nur so wäre, wenn es nur so wäre.

If she were here, if she were here!
Wenn sie hier wäre, wenn sie hier wäre!

'Were,' Hardy replied. 'Were what?'
»Wäre«, entgegnete Hardy. »Wäre?«

gäbe

There were euphemisms, there were male group brutalities, there were books.
Es gab Euphemismen, es gab die Latrinenworte, es gab Bücher.

There were lies and there were truths.
Es gab Lügen, und es gab Wahrheiten.

There were facts and there were forgeries.
Es gab Tatsachen, und es gab Fälschungen.

There were no soldiers, there were no checkpoints.
Es gab keine Soldaten, es gab keine Kontrollpunkte.

Where there were banks, there were panics.
Wo es Banken gab, da gab es auch Panik.

But where there were measures, there were countermeasures.
Aber wo es Maßnahmen gab, gab es auch Gegenmaßnahmen.

But there were no innocents, there were only actions.
Denn es gab keine Unschuldigen, es gab nur Aktionen.

But though there were no laws, there were rules.
Doch auch wenn es keine Gesetze gab, gab es Regeln.

There were things to be discussed or there were not.
Entweder gab es etwas zu be­sprechen, oder es gab nichts zu besprechen.