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What is Calque or Loan Translation A loan translation is an English compound (for example, superman) that translates a foreign term (in this case, German Übermensch). A calque is another name for a calque (from the French word for "copy"). A loan translation is a unique type of loan. " translations are simpler to grasp [than loan words] because they utilize existing components in the borrowing language, whose expressive ability is thereby increased," according to Yousef Bader. It goes without saying (ça va sans dire) that French is the source of most English loan translation. A calque (or translation) is a word-for-word translation from one language to another in linguistics. A calque takes a phrase in French and literally translates it into English root-for-root or word-for-word. Many common phrases in English are calques that have been translated from other languages. For example, a calque of the German Biergarten is Beer Garden, while Adam's Apple is...