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UK
/tɹænslˈeɪtəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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capable of being put into another form or style or language
substances readily translatable to the American home table
his books are eminently translatable -
capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy
is lead really transmutable into gold?
ideas translatable into reality
How To Use translatable In A Sentence
- Our fruits are of exceptional quality, and we have so many kinds, including the exotic and largely untranslatable caju and jaboticaba, as well as mangos, grapes, peaches and the sweetest pineapple ever. Rio de Janeiro
- The Times has translated for you the most untranslatable word in the world.
- A one page document that tells you exactly how to make your software translatable (with snippets for autoconf, C, Python etc and links to how it works only for those who are interested) and instructions how to confirm your application has been correctly set up. Planning For 10.10: Growing Our Translations Community | jonobacon@home
- When it comes to translating, sometimes a key word is not translatable into meaningful English, and in such cases I have left it in its original Sanskrit or Pali.
- Lane held the poetry untranslatable because abounding in the figure Tajnís, our paronomasia or paragram, of which there are seven distinct varieties,433 not to speak of other rhetorical flourishes. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- There is an untranslatable language of violence that articulates the laws of the forest and the frontier.
- These Dutch terms are really untranslatable, containing more nuances than can be satisfactorily conveyed by a single English word.
- From the looks of it, German, Yiddish, Japanese, and Sanskrit seem to be particularly fruitful sources of untranslatable words.
- This, of course, makes Pagolak untranslatable - indeed, any version of a Pagolak sentence in a foreign language will conceal rather than reveal the original's meaning.
- Surely you need to fix the target language to decide what the most untranslatable word would be.