Updated translation_de.ts

[mscheidemann]

Updated German translation file:

• added a lot of missing translations
• corrected spelling errors (such as "Betriebsystem" etc.)
• changed translations according to translation guidelines for German language (Gnome/Debian) etc.

[mscheidemann]

BTW: Is there any possibility to translate the "For recovery mode, hold SHIFT ..." message as well?

[procount]

Many thanks. Translations merged locally for next release.
It seems I forgot to make the Shift message translatable. I will try to fix that too.

[procount]

Do you have any proposal for the German translation of "For recovery mode, hold SHIFT, click mouse, or press joystick"?
Maybe I can insert it directly for the next version.

"Halten Sie für den Wiederherstellungsmodus die UMSCHALTTASTE gedrückt, klicken Sie mit der Maus oder drücken Sie den Joystick" seems a little verbose.

[mscheidemann]

I prefer to avoid "Sie" (formal speech) or "du" (informal speech). Quite often this is leading into a mess in community translations. Some use "Sie", others "du" in the next dialog box, which is absolutely horrible. My suggestion: "Für Wiederherstellungsmodus: UMSCHALT-Taste gedrückt halten bzw. Maustaste oder Joystick drücken" In German, we don't have to (necessarily) capitalise "Umschalttaste" (this time without hyphen), it is a quite unique term, not used in many other context than keyboard.

... seems a little verbose

Well, yes, German is much "longer" than English, which make things partially very difficult for the limited space in GUIs (reserved for text in dialog boxes / buttons). Especially when it comes to singular/plural forms like "the selected OS(es)". We have different articles for plural or singular forms, and the singular always have one of 3 genders (male, female, neuter), that needs to be declined separately and differently (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative), e.g. male: der/des/dem/den, female: die/der/der/die – and for the related adjective in front of the substantive (same case). So "the selected operating system(s)" becomes "das/die gewählte(n) Betriebssystem(e)", which … 1) is not easy to read and kind of unacceptable in menus … 2) did not even include any verb, which determines the grammar case to use ;-)) (I think French is similar complicated and "long").

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