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Meaning of anno | Babel Free

Adverb
ˈanːʊ

Definitions

in the year (of)

literary

Examples

“anno dazumal”

that time, long time ago; olden days

“materialet havde ligget færdigt anno 1755”

the material had been completed in 1755

“slik de nå befant seg nede i Frankfurt skilte ikke 1990-tallets frankfurter seg det minste fra en frankfurter anno 1914”

as they were now down in Frankfurt, the Frankfurt of the 1990s did not differ in the least from a Frankfurt in 1914

“1980-tallets borettslag [var ikke] så veldig eksotiske, sammenlignet med Groruddalen anno 2005”

The housing association of the 1980s [was not] very exotic, compared to Groruddalen in 2005

“[AD] kan også bety noe annet enn Angel Devious, det kan bety Anno Domini”

[AD] can also mean something other than Angel Devious, it can mean Anno Domini

“[Wildenveys] poesier fra de senere årene forbinder jeg med ungdommen anno dazumal”

[Wildenvey's] poems from recent years I associate with youth that time

“man burde hatt parasoll og kysehatt for å passe inn i denne atmosfæren av annodazumal”

one should have parasol and kiss hat to fit into this atmosphere of that time

“mors badedrakt fra annodazumahl [sic]”

mother's swimsuit from the olden days [sic]

“når [brevet] her gjengis i tidens språkdrakt, er det fordi det har en duft av anno dazumal som beretteren ikke har hjerte til å fjerne”

when [the letter] is reproduced here in the language of the time, it is because it has a scent of the olden days that the narrator has no heart to remove

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