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Viele dieser Frauen werden auf in England sich befindenden Universitäten
arbeiten.
Many of these women will work at universities situated in England.
Unit: 13: Extended adjective constructions
4. Translating Extended Adjective
Constructions
No matter what kind of extended adjective construction you come across, always
remember that none of the words appearing before the noun are the main verb of
the sentence and that they all belong together.
The following examples explain methods to translate some of the example
sentences from the preceding section.
Example: Diese Flüßigkeit ist kein in Wasser löslicher Stoff.
As soon as you see an introductory article or adjective followed by a
prepositional phrase (such as kein in Wasser . . .), then find the word that
follows the prepositional phrase (löslicher). The prepositional phrase is acting
as a modifier of that subsequent word, so mark off the prepositional phrase
and that modified word (a participial adjective or regular adjective) from the
rest of the construction (kein + Stoff) and first translate what remains: “This
fluid is not a substance.” Then come back to the phrase you marked off (as
described in Section 1 of this unit): “soluble”+ “in water,” knowing that it is a
modifier of “substance.”
Example: In Rußland gefundene Kunstwerke sollen zurückgegeben werden.
If there is no article or adjective (such as In Rußland . . .), then separate the
prepositional phrase (In Rußland) and its following adjective (gefundene) and
translate the remaining word(s) (Kunstwerke) before translating the
prepositional phrase and adjective: “works of art” + “found” + “in Russia”
Example: Die die Literatur liebenden Studenten studieren oft Anglistik.
When two articles appear together (Die die), you are dealing with either an
extended adjective construction or a relative-pronoun clause. If it’s the former,
then recognize the first one as the beginning of the entire enclosing noun
phrase. That tells you that everything in between is just modifiers of the main
noun: the second (die) and the noun that follows it (Literatur) plus the word