Translation of "Tafeln" in English

Tafeln sind nicht immer schwarz.

Blackboards are not always black.

- Tafeln sind nicht immer schwarz.
- Schwarze Bretter sind nicht immer schwarz.

Blackboards are not always black.

Da sie kein Gefühl für die fremde Währung hatten, rechneten Tom und Maria die Beträge in Tafeln Schokolade um. So kostete zum Beispiel eine Busfahrt umgerechnet 2⅓ Tafeln Schokolade. Tom fand das ziemlich teuer.

- Tom and Mary didn't have a feel for the foreign currency, so they counted the cost of things in bars of chocolate: for example, using this conversion, a bus journey cost about two-and-a-third bars of chocolate, which Tom found rather expensive.
- Tom and Mary didn't have a feel for the foreign currency, so they counted the cost of things in bars of chocolate: for example, the cost of a bus journey translated to about two-and-a-third bars of chocolate, which was rather expensive, Tom thought.

Erst an der Kasse bemerkte Toms Mutter, dass ihr Sprössling heimlich etliche Tafeln Schokolade unter den anderen Waren im Einkaufswagen versteckt hatte.

- It was only at the checkout that Tom's mother noticed several bars of chocolate her offspring had hidden beneath the rest of the shopping in the trolley.
- Not until reaching the checkout did Tom's mother notice that her offspring had hidden several of bars of chocolate beneath the rest of the shopping in the trolley.