Usage examples of "proper" in English with translation to German

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Translations: all10 richtig3 angemessen2 other translations5

Everything at the proper time Alles zu seiner Zeit

England proper is divided into 48 ceremonial counties. England selbst ist in 48 zeremonielle Grafschaften unterteilt.

In Japan, it is proper to bow when you meet someone. In Japan ist es höflich, sich zu verbeugen, wenn man jemanden trifft.

I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper. Ich kann den Fehltritt nicht ungeschehen wünschen, dessen Ergebnis derart zünftig ist.

Not all geniuses are engineers, but all engineers are geniuses. The set of all engineers is thus an, unfortunately proper, subset of all geniuses. Nicht alle Genies sind Ingenieure, aber alle Ingenieure sind Genies. Die Menge aller Ingenieure ist daher eine, leider echte, Teilmenge aller Genies.

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