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back-translating

back-translating is the present participle and gerund 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-translating

What is back-translating the present participle and gerund of?
Back-translating is the present participle and gerund of back-translate.

Words near back-translating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-translating (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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