über 14 Tage

English translation: over 14 days

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German term or phrase:über 14 Tage
English translation:over 14 days
Entered by: Timoshka

20:54 Apr 11, 2021
German to English translations [Non-PRO]
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German term or phrase: über 14 Tage
From the minutes of a parish meeting, held at a German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nebraska in 1889: “Darauf wurde beschlossen, daß über 14 Tage eine Colecte für die Gemeinde in Grand Prairie abgehalten werden solle.”

Does the phrase "über 14 Tage" mean "over (the course of) the next two weeks"? or "two weeks from now"? I only ask because there has been some disagreement among the people I've asked about this. I have my opinion of which is correct...
Timoshka
Local time: 15:49
over 14 days
Explanation:
That they're holding a collection over 14 days seems to be the most reasonable assumption. It seems to be for a specific, non-routine purpose. Otherwise there would be no need to indicate a time frame.
And a one-time collection won't do the trick for most purposes, whether it's for parish needs or something else...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2021-04-11 23:19:18 GMT)
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I was thinking more along the lines of "14 Sundays" in a row. Again, it would be helpful to know the purpose of the collection to decide what seems most realistic in that context.
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Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 16:49
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Many thanks! Vielen Dank!
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Michael Martin, MA


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over 14 days


Explanation:
That they're holding a collection over 14 days seems to be the most reasonable assumption. It seems to be for a specific, non-routine purpose. Otherwise there would be no need to indicate a time frame.
And a one-time collection won't do the trick for most purposes, whether it's for parish needs or something else...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2021-04-11 23:19:18 GMT)
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I was thinking more along the lines of "14 Sundays" in a row. Again, it would be helpful to know the purpose of the collection to decide what seems most realistic in that context.

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 16:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 98
Grading comment
Many thanks! Vielen Dank!
Notes to answerer
Asker: I was wondering whether this might not be a variant of "heute über 14 Tage," meaning "two weeks from today." I assume collections were taken up on Sundays, in connection with church services, rather than over the course of two weeks...


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: Cannot see any other way to translate this; without further text or evidence any other speculation seems risky
2 hrs

agree  philgoddard
4 hrs

neutral  David Hollywood: maybe "over the next fourteen days/day period" and also have to take the historical context and the fact that modern German uses "vierzehn Tage" to mean 2 weeks into account
5 hrs

agree  Edith Kelly
8 hrs

agree  Michele Fauble
19 hrs

agree  Cillie Swart: I got this too thanks...
22 hrs
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