"back-translate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: back-translates [present, singular, third-person], back-translating [participle, present], back-translated [participle, past], back-translated [past]
Etymology: From back- + translate. Etymology templates: {{af|en|back-|translate}} back- + translate Head templates: {{en-verb}} back-translate (third-person singular simple present back-translates, present participle back-translating, simple past and past participle back-translated)
  1. (translation studies) To translate a translated text back to the original language. Categories (topical): Translation studies Related terms: back-translation, back-transliterate Translations (to translate back to original language): 回譯 (Chinese Mandarin), 回译 (huíyì) (Chinese Mandarin), kääntää takaisin (Finnish), rétrotraduction [feminine] (French), zurück übersetzen (German), tłumaczyć wstecznie [imperfective] (Polish), przetłumaczyć wstecznie [perfective] (Polish), перевести́ обра́тно (perevestí obrátno) [perfective] (Russian), återöversättning [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "cmn",
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          "sense": "to translate back to original language",
          "word": "回译"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to translate back to original language",
          "word": "kääntää takaisin"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to translate back to original language",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "rétrotraduction"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to translate back to original language",
          "word": "zurück übersetzen"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
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        }
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      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
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      "word": "kääntää takaisin"
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rétrotraduction"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
      "word": "zurück übersetzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "tłumaczyć wstecznie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
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    },
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      "roman": "perevestí obrátno",
      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
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        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "перевести́ обра́тно"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to translate back to original language",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "återöversättning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "back-translate"
}

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