mistranslated
- past participle of mistranslate.
- past tense form of mistranslate.
Example Sentences
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But he insists the words he used in the Bashkir language mean "poor people" and were mistranslated into Russian.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
Ruhl’s plays are sometimes mistranslated from page to stage — rendered less poetic than they are, and more earthbound.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Angwang told The Associated Press his words were either mistranslated from Mandarin or taken out of context.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
The works were later translated and made available on the language center’s website, which Holton used to investigate the origin of the mistranslated texts.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
