Sentence examples of "modest" in English
My father is a hard-working, straightforward, and modest person.
Mein Vater ist ein hart arbeitender, geradliniger und bescheidener Mensch.
The higher he rose in social rank, the more modest he became.
Je höher er gesellschaftlich aufstieg, umso bescheidener wurde er.
On this day in 1887 appeared in Warsaw a booklet of Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof about the "International Language". Its size was modest, its motto ambitious: "For a language to be an international one, is not enough to call it as such." The name of the author was given as "Dr. Esperanto".
An diesem Tag im Jahre 1887 erschien in Warschau eine Broschüre von Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof über eine "Internationale Sprache". Ihr Umfang war bescheiden, ihr Motto ehrgeizig: "Damit eine Sprache international ist, reicht es nicht, sie so zu nennen." Als Autor war ein "Dr. Esperanto" angegeben.
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