Glossaries and translation memory
Glossaries and translation memory are the two things that keep a translation consistent. Both can be found by filtering the asset list by file type.
PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
Learn with an example
Translate “workspace” consistently
- When to use it
- Your Korean translations alternate between 작업 공간 and 워크스페이스.
- What you need
- Glossary management permission, an English-to-Korean language pair, and agreed terminology
- Agree on terms
For example, use workspace → 워크스페이스 and project → 프로젝트.
- Register the terms
Add the source and target terms to the matching language pair. Check duplicate and case rules.
- Check the connection
Check which glossary is connected in the new-project options or the editor management panel.
- Review sentences
Use glossary markings to find inconsistent translations. Compare translation-memory suggestions for repeated full sentences.
Mixed wording: 작업 공간 / 워크스페이스
Agreed wording: 워크스페이스
Use a glossary for key terms and translation memory for recurring sentence wording.
Screen and feature reference
Glossary (TB)#
A set of terms with an agreed rendering — character names, product names, proper nouns, anything people would otherwise translate differently.
Seeing it in the editor#
The editor marks glossary terms inside a sentence.
- Green — both the source and the translation follow the rule.
- Red — the translation is missing or does not match.
Adding terms#
- Add a language pair first, then add terms under that pair.
- Upload a file to add many terms at once.
- Select a word in the editor's source text to add it on the spot.
Translation memory (TM)#
Source–translation pairs accumulated from earlier work. When a similar sentence comes up again, the memory suggests how it was handled before.
In the editor you can drop either a machine translation (MT) or a translation memory (TM) suggestion into the translation field. The suggestion also shows which project it came from.
Permissions#
Permission to create, edit, and delete glossaries and translation memories is granted per member, in the Glossary and Translation memory columns of Workspace settings > Permissions. Owners and admins hold every permission automatically.
See Permissions for details.
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