A man called Love

[Brazuca]

Hello everybody. I need to translate this into German. It´s about a book title:

"Chico Xavier, a man called Love." (a man whose name is Love)

A possible translation could be "ein Mann, dessen Name Liebe ist", but I think this is a little bit long, not synthetic.

Maybe "Chico Xavier, ein Mann benannte Liebe"?

Thanks in advance.

Michel

 

[heidita]

Da bin ich, gleich zur Stelle! jeje

Ein Mann namens Liebe

 

[Brazuca]

Danke schön, heidita.

 

[Lykurg]

Please, I really need some help. Any suggestion?

Hi Brazuca, it was 2 a.m. here, so most Europeans were asleep.

 

[Brazuca]

It´s o.k., Lykurg. I forgot this little detail. Actually, a friend of mine needed this information and asked me (a poor german speaker) about it. I´m used to expressions like "gelesendes Buch" and stuff, but I have difficulties with phrases like "a man called Love".

By the way, why "namens"?

Thanks anyway.

 

[heidita]

Ich glaube, das kommt von "des Namens".

 

[Lykurg]

Ich glaube, das kommt von "des Namens".

I agree - it is a genitive form.

 

[Hutschi]

And the former substantive is a written lowercase, because it is used as "Adverb". (I do not know whether English "adverb" and German "Adverb" are exactly the same. I mean the German definition, as used in the Duden.)