translating
UStranz-LAYT-ing/tɹænzˈleɪtɪŋ/UKtrahnz-LAYT-ing/tɹɑːnzˈleɪtɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of translate.
The committee is translating the report for the foreign delegates.
Translating poetry well requires far more than knowing two languages.
Note
One -ing form does two jobs here. After be, it marks an action in progress (she is translating the letter). On its own, it names the activity, as subject or object (translating poetry is slow work). It carries every sense of translate, not only the linguistic one. Without an object it often means carrying over into another form, as when an idea is translating into policy or a joke is not translating well.
translating is a form of translate
translate, verb: To render spoken words or written text from one language into another. Full entry
- Forms
- translatetranslates he/she/ittranslating -ing formtranslated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- translate → translating: drop the e, add -ing
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