直訳

Japanese

Kanji in this term
直 訳
ちょく
Grade: 2
やく
Grade: 6
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
直譯 (kyūjitai)

Adjective

直(ちょく)訳(やく) • (chokuyaku) 

  1. translated literally
    • 2015 May 11, Morales, Daniel, “In Japanese, mastery of the space-time continuum is just a few words away”, in The Japan Times‎, retrieved 2023-04-11:
      Then make a sentence: Nete iru inu o okosanai hō ga ii (寝ている犬を起こさないほうがいい, “It’s best not to wake sleeping dogs”), a translation of the famous proverb — perhaps a little too chokuyaku (直訳, directly translated).

Noun

直(ちょく)訳(やく) • (chokuyaku) 

  1. literal translation

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Verb

直(ちょく)訳(やく)する • (chokuyaku suru) suru (stem 直(ちょく)訳(やく)し (chokuyaku shi), past 直(ちょく)訳(やく)した (chokuyaku shita))

  1. to translate literally

Conjugation

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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