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re·trans·late

(rē′trăns-lāt′, -trănz-, rē-trăns′lāt′, -trănz′-)

tr.v. re·trans·lat·ed, re·trans·lat·ing, re·trans·lates

1. To translate (something already translated) in different wording or into a different language.

2. To change the form of (something) into something new.

re′trans·la′tion n.

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retranslate

(ˌriːtrænsˈleɪt)

vb (tr)

(Linguistics) to translate (something that has already been translated)

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retranslate

Past participle: retranslated
Gerund: retranslating

Imperative
retranslate
retranslate

Present
I retranslate
you retranslate
he/she/it retranslates
we retranslate
you retranslate
they retranslate

Preterite
I retranslated
you retranslated
he/she/it retranslated
we retranslated
you retranslated
they retranslated

Present Continuous
I am retranslating
you are retranslating
he/she/it is retranslating
we are retranslating
you are retranslating
they are retranslating

Present Perfect
I have retranslated
you have retranslated
he/she/it has retranslated
we have retranslated
you have retranslated
they have retranslated

Past Continuous
I was retranslating
you were retranslating
he/she/it was retranslating
we were retranslating
you were retranslating
they were retranslating

Past Perfect
I had retranslated
you had retranslated
he/she/it had retranslated
we had retranslated
you had retranslated
they had retranslated

Future
I will retranslate
you will retranslate
he/she/it will retranslate
we will retranslate
you will retranslate
they will retranslate

Future Perfect
I will have retranslated
you will have retranslated
he/she/it will have retranslated
we will have retranslated
you will have retranslated
they will have retranslated

Future Continuous
I will be retranslating
you will be retranslating
he/she/it will be retranslating
we will be retranslating
you will be retranslating
they will be retranslating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been retranslating
you have been retranslating
he/she/it has been retranslating
we have been retranslating
you have been retranslating
they have been retranslating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been retranslating
you will have been retranslating
he/she/it will have been retranslating
we will have been retranslating
you will have been retranslating
they will have been retranslating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been retranslating
you had been retranslating
he/she/it had been retranslating
we had been retranslating
you had been retranslating
they had been retranslating

Conditional
I would retranslate
you would retranslate
he/she/it would retranslate
we would retranslate
you would retranslate
they would retranslate

Past Conditional
I would have retranslated
you would have retranslated
he/she/it would have retranslated
we would have retranslated
you would have retranslated
they would have retranslated

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Verb

retranslate - translate again

translate, interpret, render - restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."

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retraduire

retranslate

vt → neu übersetzen

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The need to retranslate the English liturgy is a slap in the face to all those who labored to create the beautiful, lyrical liturgy that came out of Vatican II.

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Barber had undoubtedly read Whitley Stokes's six-stanza translation in The Silver Branch, but he evidently found it unsatisfactory for a musical setting and asked Chester Kallman to retranslate the poem from the Irish.

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In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the need to retranslate the classics of Western literature rests not simply on the evidence that any translation is bound to seem dated after one or several generations (almost each generation has re-translated Shakespeare), but on the fact that retranslation now appears to be invested with a specific historical and cultural obligation: "to reopen the access to works whose unsettling and questioning power ended up being threatened at once by their 'glory' (too much clarity obscures, too great radiance exhausts) and by translations belonging to a phase of Western conscience that is no longer ours" (Berman 176).