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# translate

«translate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to change words from one language into another** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (translate, translates, translated, translating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To translate is to change words from one language into another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m1)

2) To translate is to change something into a different form: «translate a plan into action». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m2)

3) (maths) To translate a shape is to slide it to a new position without turning or flipping it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In languages lessons you translate words or sentences. In maths (geometry), a translation moves a shape left, right, up or down: «translate the triangle 3 squares right and 2 up». In everyday life apps translate signs and menus. Phrases: «translate into», «translate from … into …».

### examples

- Can you translate this sentence into French? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x1)
- My cousin translated the menu for us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x2)
- Translate the square 4 units to the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x3)
- After a translation, the shape is the same size and faces the same way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x4)
- The book was translated into fifty languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x5)
- Hard work translated into good marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x6)
- The app translates spoken words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x7)

### note

Noun: translation; person: translator. «Translate from Spanish into English». In maths, a translation keeps size, shape and direction the same; only position changes (unlike rotation or reflection).

### In the corpora

- [Bots translate short, common phrases well and long or tricky messages less well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/6-why-the-bot-agrees-too-easily/13/)
- [When you hear them, translate them back: kill, prison, riot, propaganda, false.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/4/)
- [In Auckland, Koa's grandad in Samoa sends voice messages in Samoan; Koa understands half, and his mum translates the rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/9/)
- [Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/12/)
- [In the 1100s scholars in Toledo, in Spain, translated Arabic books into Latin, bringing Greek and Arab science to European readers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/75-ideas-on-the-move-numbers-paper-letters-chess-and-news/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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