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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Geht's los" means "here we go!", "Let's go!", "We're off!", etc. As a question, perhaps "Are we off?", "Has it started?".
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IMHO, in this context "Geht's los" can only be translated as "has it started." (Let's go = gehen wir.)
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Originally Posted by HarryT
"was sein muss sein muss" means literally "what must be, must be". To paraphrase, perhaps "what had to be done, had to be done". Ie it was hard, but necessary.
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Your translation is spot on. As
dickloraine has already pointed out, the original version violates German grammar rules and should read "Was sein muss, muss sein."
@AlexBell: This might be a reference to the Low-German/Saxon (Plattdeutsch) proverb "
Wat mut, dat mut!" = "Was muss, das muss."