"Der Senior arbeitet."
Translation:The senior works.
15 CommentsThis discussion is locked.
1318
"senior" doesn't really work as a translation of "Senior", because it begs the question 'senior what?'. It needs to be followed by something else.
I hear "senior" on its own fairly frequently in American English. However, in British English we'd tend to use "senior citizen" or "elderly person" if we're being formal, or more colloquially we might say "OAP" (Old Age Pensioner) or simply "pensioner".
der Senior = the elderly person
der Älterer = the elderly person (which is probably used more often)
You can't really use "Älterer" on its own. You could say "ein älterer Herr" or " eine ältere Dame".
I found in the dictionary a noun "der Älterer" not only "älterer" as an adjective http://goo.gl/eetYs
You can use it in the plural, but it sounds odd in the singular. By the way, I highly recommend not using dict.cc or any other crowd-sourced dictionaries. They're riddled with mistakes.
In British English "The senior works" doesn't make any sense. We talk about a senior citizen / pensioner / old (or elderly) person (or man). "The pensioner works" should also be accepted, i believe.
In german is there a distinction between Senior and Rentner?
Would "Der Rentner arbeitet." would have a different meaning?
I said "old person" as well and it was not accepted, even though "old people" was accepted for "die Senioren."
In the UK senior can be correctly translated as old age pensioner or senior citizen. No one uses the word senior on its own
