We want natural-sounding translations, not word-for-word direct translations.
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Word-for-word
Synonyms for "word-for-word" (50 found)
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27 translations across 19 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- һүҙмә-һүҙ adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Bulgarian
1 entries- досло́вен adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 逐字 adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- 逐字逐句 adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Danish
1 entries- ordret adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Esperanto
1 entries- laŭvorta adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Finnish
1 entries- sanasta sanaan adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
French
2 entries- mot pour mot adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- mot à mot adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Georgian
3 entries- ზედმიწევნით adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- ზუსტად adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- სიტყვასიტყვით adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
German
1 entries- wortwörtlich adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Greek
3 entries- επί λέξει adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- κατά λέξη adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- λέξη προς λέξη adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Icelandic
2 entries- orðrétt adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- orðréttur adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Northern Sami
2 entries- sánis sátnái adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
- sánálaš adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ordrett adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- ordrett adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Polish
1 entries- dosłowny adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Russian
1 entries- досло́вный adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- facal air an fhacal adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Spanish
1 entries- al pie de la palabra adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Swedish
1 entries- ordagrann adj (using exactly the same words as were originally used)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
You cannot translate the sentence word-for-word.
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There's no need to try to translate a phrase word-for-word.
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This sentence seems awkward to me and perhaps is too much of a word-for-word translation of the German.
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