Frage: Wenn "jdn. anmachen" die Übersetzung für "anbraten" ist, was ist da Deutsch und was ist Englisch?

Wenn tatsächlich eine Übersetzung für "anmachen" gewünscht wird, schlage ich "to make a pass / to make passes" vor. Klingt vielleicht etwas seriöser als "anmachen", was ja auch schon Slang ist. "Anbraten" kenne ich nur aus der Küche in der Pfanne oder auch schon mal im Topf.

"anbraten" im Sinne einer Kontaktaufnahme von zwei Personen ist in der Tat ein eher niedriges Sprachniveau und mir ebenfalls nicht geläufig

ich würde chat up, dally oder mash verwenden! (teilweise auch nicht sehr "hohes" Englisch aber gebräuchlich)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?ke...
come on to sb informal
to show someone that you are sexually attracted to them
I get guys coming on to me all the time.

Aus dem AE kenne ich noch "to come on to s.o.". Siehe oben.

unknown_spirit: "dally" und "mash" sind eher BE, oder? Sind mir aus dem AE Gebrauch unkeannt.

Norbert Juffa
auf deine Anfrage hin habe ich mal bei WebsterŽs nachgeschaut:
mash (origin unknown): to flirt with or seek the affection of;

in contrast to dally, (which usage is confined to flirting) mash is usally used in another meaning, which is to express the act of crushing and smashing
since the term "mashed potatoes" is a typically british, I guess "mash" is british too, probably slang...
but correct me if I am wrong :-)

Correction: "is typically british"

The Cassell Dictionary of Slang
mash v.
1 [late 19C+] (orig. US theatrical] to make oneself attractive to a member of the opposite sex, to flirt with, to succeed in seduction; thus "mashing", seducing, making advances (cf. MASHED adj.)
2 [1950s] (W.I) to seduce, to rape (cf. MASH THE FAT)
3 [1980s+] (US campus) to kiss, to neck [? SE "mash", to crush, to pulp, thus to render 'soft', note Rom. "mash", to allure, to entice]

Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang
mash v.
1. to assault; beat up; (occ.) to kill
[..]
2. to flirt with or make romantic advances toward; (also) (all obs.) to caus to be romtantically smitten; succeed in romancing; seduce. -- also (ob.s) used intras. or absol.
1877 Puck (May) 3: Lester Wallack, Edwin Booth, and Montague [could] earn a respectable living ... blacking the shoes of the young ladies they've succeeded in "mashing" [...]
3. Black E. to give; LAY ON. -- also constr. with "on"
[...]
4. Stu. to kiss and hug; MAKE OUT, 2.b.
1986 Univ. Tenn. student theme: "Mashing" and "grubbing" [are] the current synonyms for making out.
[...]
1996 Mystery Sci. Theater (Comedy Central TV): Should we start mashin' now?

After getting off my lazy read end and consulting some dictionaries, it seems that "mash" may even originate in AE! The citations given in Lighter seem to suggest that "to mash" in the sense "to flirt" may have fallen out of use in the 1930s, and that the sense "to make out", "to neck" may be the one currently in use.

Any native speakers care to weigh in?

ArenŽt you a native speaker?

unknown_spirit: Nope. I am German. I first moved to the US in 1993, and have been living here permanently since 1994. I use German so infrequently that I prefer to stick to English for most of my postings here, for fear of making a mess of German. Some days I manage to make a mess of both German and English :-)

Norbert
oh, i am from Austria (and of course living there)
(as you might have noticed because of certain mistakes)