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

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Translations: all6 narrow5 thin1
Die Straße ist sehr schmal. The street is very narrow.
Die Straße ist zu schmal für Autos. The road is too narrow for cars.
Das Tor ist zu schmal für das Auto. The gate is too narrow for the car.
Wir gingen einen schmalen Pfad entlang. We walked along a narrow path.
Die Franzosen sind echt ein seltsames Volk: Von denen, die diesen Satz lesen, wird jeder zweite überprüfen, ob das Leerzeichen vor dem Doppelpunkt auch wirklich ein schmales geschütztes ist. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
In meinem Dorf gibt es einen kleinen schmalen Steg über einen Bach. In my village, there is a small, narrow footbridge over a brook.
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