Wiktionary:Translations of the week

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Welcome to Wiktionary's Translations of the week! Each week, we hope to add new translations to a handful of words or phrases. These can be common words that are lacking in translations, or peculiar terms that can be seen as translation pitfalls. If you're looking for a place to start with translations, try Wiktionary:Translations to be checked or Wiktionary:Translation requests.

To nominate an entry as a future translation of the week, add {{TOW}} to the page and it will be added to Category:TOW nominations. Make sure it has decent formatting and definitions, though. Keep also in mind that, while virtually every word is currently a good TOW candidate, those with many "translations to be checked" should have priority now. The idea is to get rid of these sections as quickly as possible, and the TOW might help with that.

Upon updating, The new TOW should be published in Wikipedia's language Reference Desk and Meta:Babylon

Current translations of the week

Click on a word and start translating it into any languages that you are sure of. Please take into account Wiktionary's formatting rules and translations practices. The English Wiktionary precedes each translation with its full language name rather than an ISO language code template (but we do use other templates, including {{trans-top}}, {{t}}, and {{m|f}}). Please do not copy translations from translating dictionaries (whether print dictionaries or online), as this could be seen as constituting copyright violation. The TOWs are updated every Sunday at 00:00 UTC. This is week 17. (edit)

1 cow

2 buffalo

3 weasel

Past translations of the week

2007

• week 43: Mongolian, mouse, murder
• week 44: beer, bow, cat
• week 45: face, fire, plum
• week 46: time, prime, watch
• week 47: free, life, set
• week 48: open, earth, science
• week 49: tit, midwife, dark
• week 50: can, down, hair
• week 51: car, frequency, up
• week 52: fact, here, level
• week 53: shoe, uncle, atom

2008

• week 1: bad, fear, wall
• week 2: Abraham, stand, sorry
• week 3: tool, Chinese, burn

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Upcoming translations of the week

• week 14: you, son, damage
• week 15: salt, sugar, sweet
• week 16: music, sound, voice
• week 17: cow, buffalo, weasel
• week 18: yes, good, market
• week 19: value, comfort, money
• week 20: middle, exit, behind
• week 21: drink, rain, storm
• week 22: day, knife, laugh
• week 23: property, blood, vole
• week 24: earth, planet, world
• week 25: Afrikaans, claw, nose
• week 26: transparent, bone, work
• week 27: strawberry, violent, execution
• week 28: science, island, wing
• week 29: jump, learn, mouth
• week 30: wisdom, battle, be
• week 31: communism, jazz, look
• week 32: night, poetry, clean
• week 33: magic, say, general
• week 34: light, new, Persian
• week 35: always, quarrel, more

Please remember to pull from Template talk:TOW about a month at a time, and strikeout the ones that have been done.

Perhaps add a new section to Tea room for each week, summarizing the previous week's success?

Also remember to clear out Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:treq, a redundant approach.

Occasionally check also Special:Mostcategories.