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182 months ago

turnix47 (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

German > English

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

lief

Context:

Im Akku-Betrieb lief das Notebook knapp drei Stunden

 

 

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182 months ago

DRAGOS DUMITRU VANCEA  See my profile wrote:

The notebook ran on batteries just three hours.

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182 months ago

DRAGOS DUMITRU VANCEA  See my profile wrote:

The rechargeable battery operation of the notebook amounted to almost 3 hours.

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182 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de  See my profile wrote:

In battery/accumulator operation the notebook could be used for almost three hours.

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"lief" is past tense von "laufen" - to run, to work

But here I'd rather use

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182 months ago

daniela  See my profile wrote:

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182 months ago

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I agree that worked is the best answer. Other alternative would be "ran" as a battery "runs" out of power so can "run" for a period of time.

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182 months ago

Charles Warcup  See my profile wrote:

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182 months ago

Uta Haubold  See my profile wrote:

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