English-German translations for marry

heiraten
Immer mehr Bürger heiraten Bürger aus anderen Mitgliedsländern. More and more citizens are marrying citizens from other Member States. Es kann jemanden vom anderen oder vom eigenen Geschlecht heiraten. They can marry someone from the opposite sex or someone of their own sex. Heiratswillige müssen über einige dieser Dinge informiert sein, bevor sie heiraten und Kinder zeugen. Parents need to be aware of some of these issues before they marry or before they create children.
sich verheiraten

verheiratenAls sie ihren Eltern erzählte, sie beabsichtige genau das zu tun, erkannten sie, dass es überhaupt keinen Sinn hat, sie zu verheiraten, und die Hochzeit wurde abgesagt. When she told her parents that she intended to do exactly that, they realised that there was no point whatsoever in marrying her off and so the wedding was cancelled.

To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
To be joined as spouse according to law or custom.
To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
To take as husband or wife.
To unite; to join together into a close union.
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
To place alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time
indeed!, in truth!; a term of asseveration

Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
She was not happily married.
His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailors apprentice.
He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.

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