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back-translates

back-translates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of back-translate.

Meaning of back-translate

Verb

back-translate (third-person singular simple present back-translates, present participle back-translating, simple past and past participle back-translated)

  1. To translate a translated text back to the original language.

Questions about back-translates

What is back-translates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Back-translates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of back-translate.

Words near back-translates in the dictionary

  1. back-tracked
  2. back-tracking
  3. back-tracks
  4. back-translate
  5. back-translated
  6. back-translates
  7. back-translating
  8. back-translation
  9. back-translations
  10. back-transliterate
  11. back-transliterated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-translates (page history and authors); back-translate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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