B1verblanguage
US/trænzˈleɪt/
UK/trænzˈleɪt/
to change words from one language into another; also, to change one thing into another
In context
Could you translate this email into Vietnamese for my mother?
Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Good ideas do not always translate into good business results.
Words that go with translate
verb + preposition
- translate intoThe website is translated into five languages, including Korean.
- translate fromThis poem was translated from Chinese by a Hanoi professor.
adverb + verb
- loosely translatedThe title, loosely translated, means 'the river remembers'.
- directly translateSome Vietnamese jokes cannot be directly translated into English.
verb + noun
- translate a documentWe paid an agency to translate a document for the visa.
Common mistakes
Incorrect:
Please translate this email to English for me.Correct: Please translate this email into English for me.