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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x1)
- If you mistranslate one word, the whole sentence can change. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x2)
- The online tool mistranslated my French homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x3)
- The menu was so mistranslated that «chicken» became «kitchen». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x4)
- Translators check their work so they don't mistranslate anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x5)
- Some famous mistakes came from mistranslated words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x6)
- Be careful: French «actuellement» means «currently», and it is often mistranslated as «actually». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/37-olympiad-how-could-you-check-it/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mistranslate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistranslate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.