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transverbalize

transverbalize verb: to translate language one word at a time.

Verb

transverbalize (third-person singular simple present transverbalizes, present participle transverbalizing, simple past and past participle transverbalized)

  1. To translate language one word at a time.
    • But Mr. Shedd would have the boy “transverbalize” to acquire a feeling for the Latin order.1908, Classical World, page 126
    • Thus they may learn strictly idiomatic French and attain some spoken French that is not merely English transverbalized.1921, Maryland School Bulletin, page 19
    Synonyms:
    transverbate

Examples of transverbalize in a sentence

  • And so by example, if not by precept, such teachers train their pupils to transpose the Latin words of a Latin sentence into normal English order before attempting to read it or to transverbalize it.1929, Proceedings of the High School Conference, page 60:
  • While this familiarizes the pupil with the order in which thought is presented in Latin, it does not insure the actual comprehension of the relations of words as transverbalized.1929, Mason DeWitt Gray, The Teaching of Latin, page 65:
  • The visitor in one of these classrooms is likely to rub his eyes and recall with regret the days when he dissected and transverbalized his Latin into English which meant little or nothing.1930, School of Education Bulletin, page 21:
  • As it is with me now I transverbalize most of it mentally into English and get the thought in that way.1931–45, Edward Yoder, edited by Ida Yoder, Edward, Pilgrimage of a Mind: The Journal of Edward Yoder, 1931-1945, published 1985, page 153:

Synonyms of transverbalize

Forms of transverbalize

third-person singular presenttransverbalizes
present participletransverbalizing
past participletransverbalized
pasttransverbalized

Questions about transverbalize

What does transverbalize mean?
Transverbalize means to translate language one word at a time.
How do you use transverbalize in a sentence?
And so by example, if not by precept, such teachers train their pupils to transpose the Latin words of a Latin sentence into normal English order before attempting to read it or to transverbalize it.
What part of speech is transverbalize?
Transverbalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of transverbalize?
The past tense of transverbalize is transverbalized.

Words near transverbalize in the dictionary

  1. transvenously
  2. transventricular
  3. transventricularly
  4. transverbalization
  5. transverbalizations
  6. transverbalize
  7. transverbalized
  8. transverbalizes
  9. transverbalizing
  10. transverbate
  11. transverbated

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