Sentence examples of "lebend" in German with translation "living"

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Ein lebender Hund ist besser als ein toter Löwe. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Die Zahl der Lebenden war geringer als die der Toten. The number of the living was smaller than that of the dead.
Einigen Quellen zufolge ist Noam Chomsky der am häufigsten zitierte lebende Autor. According to some sources, Noam Chomsky is the most cited living author.
Viele der ungefähr siebentausend Sprachen der Welt werden nur von ein paar Handvoll lebender Leute gesprochen und sind vom Aussterben bedroht. Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
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