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an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language
`superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch'
How To Use loan translation In A Sentence
- Canadian English borrows words from other languages mainly through the ways of direct loan, half loan, sub tenancy and loan translation.
- [Dr. Abate comments: Many of the culinary combinations are such, of course, because of their being loan translations from a Romance phrase (veal Florentine, steak tartare, etc.) or because they pick up the postpositive placement on the model of the French syntactical rules.] VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
