mistranslating in English
verb
1
translate (something) incorrectly.
He mistranslates the word for ‘love-sorcery worked with roots’, which he renders as ‘she should not be a scold.’
Use "mistranslating" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "mistranslating" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mistranslating", or refer to the context using the word "mistranslating" in the English Dictionary.
1. "The Bareheaded man needed a hat" is transcribed by my phone's speech-recognition program as "The bear headed man needed a hat." Google Translate renders "I put the pig in the pen" into French as "Je mets le cochon dans le stylo" (mistranslating "pen" in the sense of a writing instrument)