Meaning of undertranslate | Babel Free

Definitions

To translate (language) in insufficient detail, or failing to translate certain elements.

Examples

“Secondly, there is a tendency to undertranslate, viz. to normalise by generalising, to understate, in all translation but particularly in literary translation.”

“Only Borell and Adam undertranslate this opener as "What brings you here, Adler?"”

“I was told specifically that they were going to undertranslate differences between, say, present and aorist infinitives, because there was no agreement on how to handle the differences.”

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