Example sentences for: weinreich

How can you use “weinreich” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He never wrote or published anything in Yiddish, and he seemed to have used as aids in translating the Guide Alexander Harkavy's Yiddish-English Dictionary and Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary . Needless to say, translation by dictionary is the crudest and, if one may say, the cruelest form of translation.

  • [Undoubtedly, Uriel Weinreich would have offered the same remark himself, as his Languages in Contact (1953) made the point many times over.

  • According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.

  • Uriel Weinreich's dictionary gives “talking nonsense.”

  • (Uriel Weinreich's Yiddish-English Dictionary , YIVO, New York, 1968)


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