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# translate

verb (translate, translates, translated, translating)

«translate» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To translate is to change words from one language into another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m1)
2. To translate is to change something into a different form: «translate a plan into action». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m2)
3. (maths) To translate a shape is to slide it to a new position without turning or flipping it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#m3)

### In the lessons

In languages lessons you translate words or sentences. In maths (geometry), a translation moves a shape left, right, up or down: «translate the triangle 3 squares right and 2 up». In everyday life apps translate signs and menus. Phrases: «translate into», «translate from … into …».

### Examples

- Can you translate this sentence into French? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x1)
- My cousin translated the menu for us. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x2)
- Translate the square 4 units to the right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x3)
- After a translation, the shape is the same size and faces the same way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x4)
- The book was translated into fifty languages. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x5)
- Hard work translated into good marks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x6)
- The app translates spoken words. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/#x7)

### Note

Noun: translation; person: translator. «Translate from Spanish into English». In maths, a translation keeps size, shape and direction the same; only position changes (unlike rotation or reflection).

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Jewish scholars like Rashi and Judah Halevi gave their own meanings of hard Hebrew words, so translation also shows how the text was understood. In the primary lessons: In languages lessons you translate words or sentences. In maths (geometry), a translation moves a shape left, right, up or down: «translate the triangle 3 squares right and 2 up». In everyday life apps translate signs and menus. Phrases: «translate into», «translate from … into …».

### Examples

- The word חמפולמות is translated by Rashi, moist. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/translate/#x1)
- 45) I have translated according to the reading of Rabbi Judah Halevi. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/translate/#x2)
- It is necessary to avoid confusion between these letters ; different authors translate them in different manners. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/translate/#x3)

### Note

Noun: translation; person: translator. «Translate from Spanish into English». In maths, a translation keeps size, shape and direction the same; only position changes (unlike rotation or reflection).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «translate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/translate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«translate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/translate.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «translate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/translate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«translate» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/translate.html) on Mova free.