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ausgewiesen

English translation: registered

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German term or phrase:ausgewiesen
English translation:registered
Entered by: Timoshka

01:59 Nov 4, 2023
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
German term or phrase: ausgewiesen
From a letter, written by a Jewish woman in Vienna in 1940:

"Gisl kommt öfters zu uns, sie könnte ein Affidavit dringend brauchen und wäre nach ihrer Registriernummer auch schon längst drangekommen. Die Arme weiß nicht, was sie anfangen soll, und ist doch ausgewiesen und muß sich 2x wöchentlich melden."

The use of "ausgewiesen" here is puzzling. If she were expelled or deported, she would no longer be there to report twice a week...
Timoshka
Local time: 12:47
registered
Explanation:
"Gisl often comes to us , she could urgently do with an affidavit and should have got it long ago according to her registration number. The poor thing doesn't know what to do, but she's registered and has to report twice a week."

'registered', as in possessing an 'Ausweis', is the obvious and logical meaning here
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Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:47
Grading comment
Thank you!
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
registered


Explanation:
"Gisl often comes to us , she could urgently do with an affidavit and should have got it long ago according to her registration number. The poor thing doesn't know what to do, but she's registered and has to report twice a week."

'registered', as in possessing an 'Ausweis', is the obvious and logical meaning here

Andrew Bramhall
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:47
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Roni Glaser
5 hrs
  -> Thank you!
neutral  writeaway: https://www.deepl.com/en/translator#de/en/"Gisl kommt öfters...
5 hrs
  -> Thank you! but not sure why you chose to machine translate a section of the text which doesn't include the question asked. Maybe because there's no similarity between Deepl's version and mine?
agree  philgoddard: I'm not totally sure of this - maybe you need a reference or two - but it does make sense.
5 hrs
  -> Yep, thanks, Phil. The idea is that she is officially registered within the system, and is therefore obliged. That's my reading.
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