"back-translate" meaning in English

See back-translate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

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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