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google translate

google translate is the alternative form of Google Translate.

Verb (1) capitalized: Google Translate

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

  1. (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
    • Cleaning the pastry cutter with her spatula, Corie’s mind dipped to the little journal of Natalie’s. She’d Google Translated some of it, but for the most part, it didn’t make any sense. It mentioned the first crush, the alignment of the stars, the comet that year …2016, Ashley Elizabeth Ludwig, chapter 29, in First Crush, Raleigh, N.C.: Bling! Romance, →ISBN, page 192

Verb (2) capitalized: Google translate

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

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Google Translate.
    • Anyway, I tried Google translating this but apparently I can’t spell for shit because it tells me he’s saying, ‘I want very much to woo you.’2014, Nicolas Billon, “Scene 1”, in Butcher, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 15
    • Digby pointed to bottles labeled in a foreign script. “Is that Hindi?” he said. / “Thai,” Silk replied. / Digby Google translated it. “Nandrolone decanoate.” But he looked skeptical.2016, Stephanie Tromly, chapter 13, in Trouble Makes a Comeback, New York, N.Y.: Kathy Dawson Books, →ISBN, page 138

Forms of google translate

third-person singular presentgoogle translates
present participlegoogle translating
past participlegoogle translated
pastgoogle translated
third-person singular presentGoogle Translates
present participleGoogle Translating
past participleGoogle Translated
pastGoogle Translated
alternative formGoogle-Translate
alternative formGoogle translate
alternative formGoogle-translate
alternative formgoogle translate
alternative formgoogle-translate
third-person singular presentGoogle translates
present participleGoogle translating
past participleGoogle translated
pastGoogle translated

Questions about google translate

What does google translate mean?
Google translate means to translate (something) using the Google Translate machine translation service.
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.

Words near google translate in the dictionary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: google translate (page history and authors); Google Translate (page history and authors); Google 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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