word-for-word

See also: word for word

English

Adjective

word-for-word (not comparable)

1. Using exactly the same words (as were originally used).

   His essay was a word-for-word copy of one on the Internet.

Synonyms

• exact, verbatim

Coordinate terms

• sense-for-sense

Translations

using exactly the same words as were originally used

• Bashkir: һүҙмә-һүҙ (hüźmə-hüź)
• Bulgarian: досло́вен (doslóven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逐字 (zh) (zhúzì), 逐字逐句 (zh) (zhúzìzhújù)

• Danish: ordret
• Esperanto: laŭvorta
• Finnish: sanasta sanaan
• French: mot à mot (fr), mot pour mot (fr)
• Georgian: სიტყვასიტყვით (ka) (siṭq̇vasiṭq̇vit), ზედმიწევნით (zedmic̣evnit), ზუსტად (zusṭad)
• German: wortwörtlich (de)
• Greek: λέξη προς λέξη (léxi pros léxi), επί λέξει (el) (epí léxei), κατά λέξη (katá léxi)
• Icelandic: orðréttur (is) m, orðrétt f or n
• Northern Sami: sánis sátnái, sánálaš
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ordrett

  Nynorsk: ordrett

• Polish: dosłowny (pl)
• Russian: досло́вный (ru) (doslóvnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: facal air an fhacal
• Spanish: al pie de la palabra
• Swedish: ordagrann (sv)

See also

• formal equivalence
• literalism
• metaphrase (translation theory)