Translation for "niin sanoakseni" to english

Niin sanoakseni

adverb

• so to speak
• so to say
• as it were
• in a manner of speaking

Translation examples

so to speak adverb

Linnean Societyn puheenjohtaja Thomas Bell, joka toimi myös 1. heinäkuuta 1858 pidetyn esitelmäkokouksen puheenjohtajana, totesi vuosiraportissaan toukokuussa 1859, "ettei menneenä vuonna ollut tapahtunut mitään suurempia tieteellisiä löydöksiä, jotka heti mullistavat, niin sanoakseni, sen tieteenalan jota ne koskevat".
The Linnean Society President Thomas Bell in his presidential report of May 1859 wrote that "The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear".

as it were adverb

Meidän täytyy erottaa magian kemia sen alkemiasta niin sanoakseni.
We need to separate the chemistry of magic from the alchemy, as it were.