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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

syntax question - fallen ... ab

English translation:

there's something in it for every company ..

Added to glossary by Susan Welsh
Jun 9, 2011 19:36
12 yrs ago
German term

syntax question

German to English Marketing Mechanics / Mech Engineering bearings - promotional website
I don't know how to begin to unravel this sentence! For starters, what does the "ab" at the end go with? Absetzen has about 100 meanings, most of them contradictory.

Da fällt für jedes betroffene Unternehmen, setzt es auf Tribokunststoffe, einiges ab.

This is about how much waste there is because of friction and wear and tear on machinery, which could be solved with the use of plastic bearings and such.

The sentence before the problem one is:
Durch konsequentes Umsetzen des bereits heute vorhandenen tribologischen Wissens könnten ca. 5 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr eingespart werden.

Thanks!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +8 there's something in it for every company ..
4 ...advantageous for every company involved in the...
Change log

Jun 10, 2011 08:24: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Tech/Engineering" to "Marketing"

Jun 11, 2011 11:30: Susan Welsh Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): Cilian O'Tuama

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Discussion

Susan Welsh (asker) Jun 10, 2011:
just a syntax question... Hi Cilian, I don't care whether it's pro or non-pro, but I sure have banged my head against many a chunk of German syntax in the past, and I dare say I will again in the future. I believe I'm not the only non-native-speaker of German who finds syntax the hardest part of the language. (At least, Mark Twain found it a bit challenging.) I appreciate the help I get here, and if it's non-pro, I'm not insulted!
Cilian O'Tuama Jun 9, 2011:
if it's just a syntax question... then I vote non-pro.
Nicole Schnell Jun 9, 2011:
Hi Susan "Ab" belongs to "fallen", not "setzen".
Simply read the German sentence as follows:
"Da fällt für jedes betroffene Unternehmen einiges ab, wenn es auf Tribokunststoffe setzt."
Darin Fitzpatrick Jun 9, 2011:
Recast sentence The sentence could be recast in German as:

Fuer jedes betroffene Unternehmen faellt einiges ab, wenn es auf Tribokunstoffe setzt.

Proposed translations

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there's something in it for every company ..

As I see it, the "ab" goes with "fällt" and the meaning is "Für jedes Unternehmen, das auf T. setzt, fällt einiges ab". If "abfällt" is meant in the colloquial sense of "getting something out of it", then the sentence means "Then there's something in it for every affected company that relies on T. plastics"
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to all. Turns out it was not just a syntax question, but I also didn't understand the colloquial meaning of "abfallen" (for a word that otherwise means things like "to decline, drop, secede, apostasize... and lots more things, all negative in connotation, unlike this idiom). Shows you the limitations of dictionaries. :-("
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...advantageous for every company involved in the...

sounds a bit more formal then "something in it"
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