English translation

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English translation refers to a rendering of text or speech from another language into English.

The phrase often appears as a descriptor: the English translation of War and Peace, an English translation of the menu.

It can also denote the field or act of translating into English: She specializes in English translation from Japanese.

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semantics · cultural adaptation · paraphrasing · transcreation · book · glossing · pragmatics · collocations · morphology · lexicon · idioms · style guides · subtitling · CAT tools · target language · grammar checkers · foreign language · working language

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Opposites
linguistic direction

English translationoriginal text

First unedited version

source text · source material · source document · ur-text

original vs. translated

English translationoriginal

First or inventive

source material · original composition · primary source

target language

English translationFrench translation

Rendering into Gallic speech

German translation · Spanish translation · Chinese translation

Family

English, England, Englishman, Englishmen, Englishwoman, Englishwomen, Angles, Anglican, translate

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G