Translation of "erfindung" into English

brainchild, invention, fiction are the top translations of "erfindung" into English.

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  • brainchild

    noun

    Projekt Taube war eine Erfindung von Burrhus Frederic Skinner.

    Project Pigeon was the brainchild of one Burrhus Frederic Skinner.

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Erfindung noun Noun feminine grammar

Jägerlatein (umgangssprachlich) [..]

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  • invention

    noun

    something invented [..]

    Das Handy ist eine Erfindung, ohne die wir nicht leben können.

    The cellphone is an invention we can't live without.

  • fiction

    noun

    invention

    Vielleicht war die Zeitung auch nur eine Erfindung.

    He didn't know whether yesterday's paper was a fiction too.

  • contrivance

    noun

    elaborate means to accomplish an objective [..]

    Natürlich sind es Erfindungen, wie so vieles hier.

    Of course, such things are contrivances, like so much here.

  • Less frequent translations

    • figment
    • creation
    • fabrication
    • device
    • discovery
    • concoction
    • plan
    • fictional
    • idea
    • fictitious
    • falsehood
    • imaginary
    • forgery
    • origination
    • inventing
    • spin
    • fantasy
    • lie
    • frame-up
    • put-up job
    • raising
    • trumped-up story
    • brainchild
    • conception
    • inventiveness
    • contraption
    • hoax
    • dedication to spiritual improvement
    • find
    • original idea
    • production
    • myth
    • widget
    • concept
    • work
    • being enlightened
    • having the meaning of everything become clear
    • literary creation
    • ready wit
    • to devise
    • to invent
    • to think out

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