Question 1 · Quick check
translate
CEFRA1
/tɹɑːnzˈleɪt/
verb
Türkçe translations
Translating…
In plain English
- 01
verb
To change words from one language into another.
- 02
verb
To express an idea in a different form.
Examples
Don't translate English into Japanese word for word.
It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- [ˈtʃɹʷɛ̃nzɫæe̯ʔ(t)]
- /ˈtɹɛnz.læɪt/
Deep Dive
verb
Extra meaningsSenses relating to the change of information, etc., from one form to another.
To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
More examples
In contextHans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
Translate the underlined part.
Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
Quick test
Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.
Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.
Nearby
Origin
verb
From Middle English translaten (“to transport, translate, transform”), from Anglo-Norman translater, from Latin trānslātus, perfect passive participle of trānsferō (“to transport, carry across, translate”). See also -ate (verb-forming suffix). Distant doublet of transfer, see collate and confer, delate and defer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. In this sense, displaced Old English wendan (“to translate,” also the word for “to turn” and “to change”).