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245 months ago

Andrea Servi (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Pißstände
Context:	I think urinals but I am not s
Keywords:	-

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245 months ago

wrote:

Public Urinal

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245 months ago

Pamela Seidel wrote:

pissoir

My comment:

urinal refers to the actual bowl rather than the whole booth and sounds more respectable anyway- you could have a urinal in your own bathroom but not a pissoir ( note the correct spelling!)

My references:

see definition in Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary

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245 months ago

Pamela Seidel wrote:

pissoirs

My comment:

urinal refers to the actual bowl rather than the whole booth and sounds more respectable anyway- you could have a urinal in your own bathroom but not a pissoir ( note the correct spelling!)

My references:

see definition in Cambridge Advanced Learner's dictionary

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245 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

Urinals

My comment:

You are right

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245 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

urinals

My comment:

however a urinal is normally calle pissoire. these are the large and long urinals specific to beer halls

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245 months ago

Barbara Tinschert wrote:

urinals

My comment:

your're right, but it 's not really a pretty german word.

My references:

http://www.bauordnungen.de/html/bautechnikverordnung2.html
http://www.geberit.at/geberit/inet/at/wcmsat.nsf/files/usr-div-Bedarszahlen.pdf/$file/Bedarszahlen.pdf

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