mistranslate

«mistranslate» in Mova's school dictionary: To translate words from one language into another… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (mistranslate, mistranslates, mistranslated, mistranslating)

meaning for a pupil

To translate words from one language into another wrongly, so the meaning changes. tree →

sense in the lessons

In language lessons, pupils see how a word can be mistranslated if you translate word by word, and how false friends trick people (French «librairie» is a bookshop, not a library). In news and history, mistranslated messages have caused confusion. Phrases: mistranslated sign, badly mistranslated.

examples

• The sign was mistranslated and said «Please slip carefully». tree →
• If you mistranslate one word, the whole sentence can change. tree →
• The online tool mistranslated my French homework. tree →
• The menu was so mistranslated that «chicken» became «kitchen». tree →
• Translators check their work so they don't mistranslate anything. tree →
• Some famous mistakes came from mistranslated words. tree →
• Be careful: French «actuellement» means «currently», and it is often mistranslated as «actually». tree →

note

Regular verb: mistranslated, mistranslating. Noun: mistranslation. «Mis-» = wrongly. Translation is from one language to another; interpreting is spoken translation.

In the corpora

• Every taste can be sensed wherever there are taste buds; the old tongue map came from a mistranslated German study of 1901.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mistranslate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.