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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Dreiländereck

English translation:

tri-state region

Added to glossary by gangels (X)
Mar 7, 2013 15:08
11 yrs ago
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German term

Dreiländereck

Non-PRO German to English Other Geography name given to German region(s)
Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich

What would be most common? Tripoint/Tricorner/tripartite region??? or some other

Thank you for any suggestions.
Proposed translations (English)
3 tri-state region
4 +4 tri-border region
4 "three country corner"
4 border triangle
3 tripoint
References
Why not
Change log

Mar 7, 2013 16:09: writeaway changed "Field" from "Science" to "Other"

Mar 7, 2013 16:16: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "British English" to "name given to German region(s) "

Mar 7, 2013 21:28: pj-ffm changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (3): Kim Metzger, David Moore (X), pj-ffm

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Discussion

Lancashireman Mar 8, 2013:
"because there are US examples" So presumably not intended for a non-US readership, Klaus? (Tollway ... sounds most natural!)
gangels (X) (asker) Mar 7, 2013:
Hi, Horst Like tri-state region (because there are US examples/eg tristate tollway and sounds most natural). Post it and get 4 points
Horst Huber (X) Mar 7, 2013:
New York, for example is a tri-state area. Here we are dealing with nation states, countries. I don't recall anything like tri-country ...
Uta Kappler Mar 7, 2013:
Any specific context? There are certainly several other solutions you could use to describe this, e.g. three-country border , border triangle, cross-border triangle of XYZ, triangle formed by the three countries XYZ, region where three countries meet, three corners region where XYZ meet ...

Proposed translations

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tri-state region

As suggested, thanks. One might assume the context tells the reader that nation states are involved, not second-tier jurisdinctions like Bundesländer.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:45:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" might suggest something smaller.

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Note added at 1 Tag11 Stunden (2013-03-09 02:47:23 GMT) Post-grading
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Maybe "area" would suggest some smaller territory.
Peer comment(s):
neutral writeaway : tri-state region. as in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut?
3 hrs
About the size of it. Thanks.
neutral Lancashireman : Klaus appears to be ignoring his own source text by asking for this to be posted: Deutschland/Schweiz/Österreich
3 hrs
Of course "-eck" has a cozy tone to it. Thanks.
neutral Cilian O'Tuama : who needs natives?
3 days 2 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Sounds most natural to me rather than tri-border or tripping. Perhaps tri-nation region would be possible, but so far, didn't get any feedback from client."
+4
6 mins

tri-border region

Reference:

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/dings.cgi?lang=de&service=deen&opterrors=0&optpro=0&query=dreil%E4ndereck&iservice=&f_n=&f_e=&n_1=&n_p1=&n_reg1=&

Peer comment(s):
agree Michael Martin, MA : Yes -or "tri-country region"
14 mins
agree Cristina Bufi Poecksteiner, M.A.
32 mins
agree writeaway : in anybody's Englisch/English
56 mins
neutral Lancashireman : 'Tri-border' is a rather inelegant hybrid, IMO
1 hr
agree Thayenga : :)
20 hrs
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54 mins

"three country corner"

don't see what is wrong with this - I've seen it in use
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1 hr

tripoint

A tripoint, trijunction,[1] or triple point (also, if inexactly, known as a tri-border area), is a geographical point at which the borders of three countries or subnational entities meet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoint

(The Netherlands have only one tripoint: "drielandenpunt"
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drielandenpunt)
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2 hrs

border triangle

In several web sites about the Tri-Countries Bridge between Weil am Rhein, Germany and Hüningen, France the area is referred to as the border triangle between these three countries.
Example sentence:

In the border triangle of southwest Germany, this new pedestrian bridge across the Rhine River near Basel was opened in March 2007.

In the border triangle of southwest Germany, a new pedestrian bridge across the Rhine River was opened in March 2007.

Reference:

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iabse/sei/2010/00000020/00000003/art00018

http://www.iabse.org/IABSE/association/Organisation_files/Outstanding_Structure_Award/Tri-Countries_Bridge__Weil_am_Rhein__Germany__and_Huni

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Reference comments

2 mins
Reference:

Why not

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Peer comments on this reference comment:
agree writeaway : thought it was asked before. Sounds very familiar in any case (maybe because I lived an a Dreiländereck: Germany/ Switzerland/France). a very well-known German term in any case /nope
57 mins
agree philgoddard : Sadly, this is not the consensus view. In my experience, most people think that every use of a word is a different context and therefore justifies a new question.
2 hrs
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