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English translation: undertake all the proper preparations so xx can follow

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German term or phrase:alles gut einrichten um nachzukommen
English translation:undertake all the proper preparations so xx can follow
Entered by: Nicole Schnell

02:01 Dec 17, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / 19th-century letter
German term or phrase: alles gut einrichten um nachzukommen
This appears in a letter written in 1849 from Düsseldorf to a 21-year-old member of the family who was temporarily in Bremen, awaiting departure on the steamship Washington. His family wrote him: "...und in Amerika nur alles gut einrichten um nachzukommen." Any ideas?
Timoshka
Local time: 04:59
undertake all the proper preparations so the family can follow
Explanation:
If I had the full sentence I could provide decent grammar :-)
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Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 02:59
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Summary of answers provided
3 +5undertake all the proper preparations so the family can follow
Nicole Schnell
3 +1to arrange everything well so that we can follow
swisstell


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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
undertake all the proper preparations so the family can follow


Explanation:
If I had the full sentence I could provide decent grammar :-)

Nicole Schnell
United States
Local time: 02:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 36

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agree  Zhijun JIANG
1 min
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agree  roeland
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agree  Kim Metzger
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agree  franglish
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agree  Michele Fauble
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to arrange everything well so that we can follow


Explanation:
to do well so that we can follow you (to America)


my interpretation of the little that is known

swisstell
Italy
Local time: 11:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 21

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Annette Urbschat: or 'arrange everything for us to follow'
11 hrs
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