Definition: tracing, carbon copy, spitting image, loan translation
Je vais prendre un calque de ce plan - I'm going to trace (take a tracing of) this map.
David est le calque de son père - David is the spitting image of his father.
A loan translation (also called a calque in English) is the literal translation of a word or expression into another language.
« Faire une décision » est un calque de « to make a decision ». - Faire une décision is a loan translation of "to make a decision." (The correct French expression is prendre une décision.)
Related: calquer - to trace, copy exactly; le calquage - tracing
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Je vais prendre un calque de ce plan - I'm going to trace (take a tracing of) this map.
David est le calque de son père - David is the spitting image of his father.
A loan translation (also called a calque in English) is the literal translation of a word or expression into another language.
« Faire une décision » est un calque de « to make a decision ». - Faire une décision is a loan translation of "to make a decision." (The correct French expression is prendre une décision.)
Related: calquer - to trace, copy exactly; le calquage - tracing
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Pronunciation: [kahlk]
