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Dutch
Etymology
In analogy to vertalen (“to translate”). Equivalent to her- + talen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɦɛrˈtaː.lə(n)/
- Hyphenation: her‧ta‧len
- Rhymes: -aːlən
Verb
hertalen
- (transitive, intransitive) to adapt or rewrite a historic literary text that is difficult to read for a contemporary audience due to, for example, archaisms and obsolete spelling, in a modern version of the same language
2022 April 21, Margot Poll, “‘De gewone gevangenen vond ik leuker dan de Jehova’s getuigen’ ['I liked the regular prisoners better than the Jehovah's Witnesses']”, in NRC Handelsblad, retrieved 2 December 2022:In de serie ‘hertaalde klassiekers’ heeft docent Nederlands Albert Kroezemann de roman Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid (1900) van de grote Nederlandse schrijver Louis Couperus (1863-1923) fijnzinnig hertaald.- As part of the series 'great novels adapted to modern language', Dutch language teacher Albert Kroezemann sensitively rewrote the novel Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid (1900) by the great Dutch writer Louis Couperus (1863-1923) in contemporary Dutch.
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