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How to pronounce “calque”
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Pronunciation guide for calque
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of calque with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Living Language Dothraki
come up with some sort of a calque for it on their own
- Definition summary
- (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
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How to pronounce calque
Living Language Dothraki
come up with some sort of a calque for it on their own
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
- [Verb]
- (linguistics, translation studies, transitive) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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