target language
Americannoun
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the language into which a text is to be translated from another language.
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a language, especially a foreign language, that one is in the process of learning.
noun
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the language into which a text, document, etc, is translated
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a language that is being or is to be learnt
Etymology
Origin of target language
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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I definitely recommend that you start doing this in your target language once you’re at a point where you feel that you can understand it.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022
It shows you pictures, describes them in your target language, and then has you practice doing the same, cutting out the translation middleman.
From The Verge ● Feb. 15, 2022
But today, the preferred model is a less culturally imperialistic one: finding bilingual locals already fluent in the target language and working with them to produce a new Bible.
From Slate ● May 11, 2018
Depending on the model, classes are generally taught from 50 percent to 90 percent of the time in the target language, with the rest taught in English.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
However, the task of translating a poem is much more than that of taking the words of the source language and replacing them with equivalent words from the target language.
From Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse by Cropley, Arthur
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