google-translate

google-translate is the alternative form of Google Translate.

Meaning of Google Translate

Google Translate (third-person singular simple present Google Translates, present participle Google Translating, simple past and past participle Google Translated)

(ambitransitive) To translate (something) using the Google Translate machine translation service.
- Doing life admin in your own country is arduous enough, but attempting to do it in a foreign land, in a language with which you’re still not familiar, is nigh on impossible. After eleven months of Google Translating every document that came my way, I’ve become a little slack of late.2015, Helen Russell, “December: Trusting the Taxman (or Woman)”, in The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country, London: Icon Books, →ISBN, page 283

Google-Translate (third-person singular simple present Google-Translates, present participle Google-Translating, simple past and past participle Google-Translated)

(alternative) Alternative form of Google Translate.
- A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I complained about being forced to write fewer words than usual. As a protest, I then petulantly switched to more concise languages, including teenage Twitterspeak, aboriginal Australian and also, in some places where my column was published, Hebrew. How...2013 December 8, Gene Weingarten, “Repenting sins”, in Ray Rivera, editor, The Santa Fe New Mexican, 164th year, number 342, Santa Fe, N.M.: Ginny Sohn, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-8, column 5
- Before heading into the camera shop, I Google-Translated the appropriate photography-related vocabulary and figured out how to describe what we needed.2015, Marianne C. Bohr, “La France Profonde”, in Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, page 89

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

(alternative) Alternative form of Google Translate.
- There was a letter inside, a Google-translated message in Ukrainian asking Slava L. to provide me and my party with pot in Uman. I had not asked the stoned guy to do this, but it had seemed impolite to refuse the note. He’d gone to the trouble of Google-translating it back and forth several times...2012, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Uman”, in A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 266
- I Google-translated the lyrics, thinking maybe the story would help me remember, but there’s no story at all.2017, Raquel Rivera, chapter 8, in Show Mode (Orca Limelights), Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 49

third-person singular present	google-translates
present participle	google-translating
past participle	google-translated
past	google-translated
third-person singular present	Google-Translates
present participle	Google-Translating
past participle	Google-Translated
past	Google-Translated
third-person singular present	Google-translates
present participle	Google-translating
past participle	Google-translated
past	Google-translated

What is google-translate the alternative form of?: Google-translate is the alternative form of Google Translate.
What part of speech is google-translate?: Google-translate is a verb.
What is the past tense of google-translate?: The past tense of google-translate is google-translated.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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