Translation of "handful" to German

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Dictionary translations for "handful"

handful [ˈhændful] noun

pl. handfuls

die Hand voll f (quantity)

Contexts with "handful"

The boy gathered a handful of peanuts and put them in a small box. Der Junge sammelte eine Handvoll Erdnüsse und legte sie in eine kleine Schachtel.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original. Die Schwierigkeit der japanischen Sprache verhindert, dass Ausländer, von einer Handvoll abgesehen, sich der japanischen Literatur in der Originalsprache nähern.

Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction. Viele der ungefähr siebentausend Sprachen der Welt werden nur von ein paar Handvoll lebender Leute gesprochen und sind vom Aussterben bedroht.

There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood. Es gibt ein paar freche Jungen in meiner Nachbarschaft.

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