Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Almen
English translation:
Alpine huts / mountain huts
Added to glossary by
Martin Wenzel
Feb 27, 2009 17:37
15 yrs ago
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Almen
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Viele Almen haben auch im Winter geöffnet und bieten gepflegte teilweise auch nachts beleuchtete Rodelbahnen.
Are we talking about alpine pastures, restaurants, slopes, lifts, sorry folks, I think I need a break...
Are we talking about alpine pastures, restaurants, slopes, lifts, sorry folks, I think I need a break...
Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | Alpine huts / mountain huts |
Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
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| 3 +3 | alpine pastures |
Helen Shiner
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| 4 | mountain pastures |
Peter Ward
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| 2 -1 | lodges |
Uta Kappler
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Proposed translations
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Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
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Lesley Robertson MA, Dip Trans IoLET
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Alpine huts / mountain huts
Although the "Alm" can mean pasture, I'm sure that in your context is talking about the simple, rustic mountain huts that offer food and drink (and sometimes overnight stays). I live in the Tyrol, am married to a local mountain guide and we spend quite a bit of time walking up to "Almen"!!! I've sent you links to a couple of nice ones near here
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Note added at 15 hrs (2009-02-28 09:01:53 GMT)
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Most of the Alms have a private forest path/walking trail leading up to them which the owners let people use for tobogganing in the winter. The notion of an "Alm" has changed over time but you're translating something "touristy"here, not something agricultural. As far as tourists are concerned, an "Alm" (or a "Hütte") is somewhere you walk up to (often but not always only reachable on foot) and have a drink/meal - some offer accommodation, very often still "dormitory style". They have pasture land round them, yes, where the animals are taken up to graze in the summer months, but here it is the "Hütte" i.e. the "Almgebäude" that is relevant.
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Note added at 15 hrs (2009-02-28 09:01:53 GMT)
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Most of the Alms have a private forest path/walking trail leading up to them which the owners let people use for tobogganing in the winter. The notion of an "Alm" has changed over time but you're translating something "touristy"here, not something agricultural. As far as tourists are concerned, an "Alm" (or a "Hütte") is somewhere you walk up to (often but not always only reachable on foot) and have a drink/meal - some offer accommodation, very often still "dormitory style". They have pasture land round them, yes, where the animals are taken up to graze in the summer months, but here it is the "Hütte" i.e. the "Almgebäude" that is relevant.
Peer comment(s):
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Friderike Butler
: Yes, shelter in the broadest sense + surrounding pastures
1 hr
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Lonnie Legg
: I agree with your interpretation that the hut is what's meant here.
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oa_xxx (X)
: http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/hutsinnsbruck.htm //The sound of cow bells ebbed and flowed with the breeze, as we hiked for two hours up the gently curving hill to the Alm. Rolling green meadows...surrounded the small mountain hut..
1 day 6 hrs
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Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
1 day 16 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks."
+3
9 mins
Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
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50
alpine pastures
There is access to them at these times - presumably because they are privately-held, and possibly because at other times they are dangerous.
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Note added at 9 mins (2009-02-27 17:46:55 GMT)
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I mean 'public access' at times and not at others.
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Note added at 9 mins (2009-02-27 17:46:55 GMT)
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I mean 'public access' at times and not at others.
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Yael Ramon
: but actually, the real "Alm" is all of it together - it's the recreational complex held by local farmers or villages on their private alpin pastures area
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You are probably right - by extension it has come to mean that.
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Courtney Sliwinski
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Thanks, Courtney
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Jeanette Phillips
: I agree with you, and Yael's explanation. It's the entire area.
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Thank you, Jeanette
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Peter Ward
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mountain pastures
Possible alternative (Oxford Duden)
-1
39 mins
Uta Kappler
United States
United States
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United States
I do IT!
Native in: German (Variant: Germany)
Works in: English to German, German, German to English
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4
lodges
"Alm" is also used to denominate a building, an alpine farmers hut with pasture, only used in summer. In the bigger context of this sentence, I think "lodges" would be a good choice (see the subsequent text under more... http://www.ferienschloessl.at/de/winter.php) I would probably leave "Almen" and put "lodges" in parentheses for anb explanation.
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Yael Ramon
: as the rest of the sentence says "bieten gepflegte teilweise auch nachts beleuchtete Rodelbahnen" i doubt it they only mean the lodge, not to mention the fact that the pasture itself turns in winter into a ski resort, or an "apres ski" recreational area.
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