truth

Wahrheit

Das, was mit den Tatsachen oder dem tatsächlichen Geschehen übereinstimmt.

In einfachem Englisch: What agrees with the facts or with what really happened.

• Please tell me the truth.
• He hid the truth about his past.
• There was little truth in the rumours.

So benutzt man es: the truth about someone/something (We finally learned the truth about the accident.); there is truth in something (There is some truth in what she says.)

Synonyme: reality, fact

Gegenteile: falsehood, lie

Häufige Wendungen: tell the truth, the whole truth, discover the truth, truth about something

Treue, Loyalität

Das treue Festhalten an einer Person, einer Überzeugung oder den eigenen Gefühlen.

In einfachem Englisch: Being faithful to a person, belief, or your own feelings.

• Her truth to her beliefs never weakened.
• The story praises his truth to an old friend.
• For the poet, truth to oneself mattered more than praise.

So benutzt man es: truth to someone/something (The poem celebrates her truth to her own ideals.)

Synonyme: faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

Gegenteile: unfaithfulness, disloyalty

Häufige Wendungen: truth to oneself, truth to someone, truth to principles