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3 Replies ・ Started by Fedya at 2017-06-12 20:00:24 UTC ・ Last reply by Fedya at 2017-06-14 17:16:52 UTC

Please add 取り戻せる

Guys, dictionary doesn't translate 取り戻せる . Google says it is "To recoup". I would also add "to recover, to bring back".
Can you please add it?
Thanks

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jakobd2 at 2017-06-12 21:07:55 UTC

It's the 可能形 of the verb 取り戻す and as such already included in the dictionary. If you want to edit a dictionary entry, just click on the "Edit in JMdict" link next to the entry and make a suggestion in the source database. If it gets accepted, then Jisho.org will also display the updated entry after a short while.
If at any point you find a word that is actually not in the database, then new JMdict entries can be created here: http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/edform.py?svc=jmdict&sid=

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jakobd2 at 2017-06-12 21:26:34 UTC

Also, a personal suggestion from me would be for you to use actually authored Japanese dictionaries instead of Google Translate if you want to double-check something. You can find the following entries for 取り戻す in...
* グランドコンサイス和英辞典: get [take] back; recover; restore
* ウィズダム和英辞典: regain; (取り返す) get* … back; (回復する) recover; (元に戻す) restore /ristɔ́ːr/.
* コンサイスEX和英辞典: get [take] back; recover; restore
* デイリーコンサイス和英辞典: (this dictionary just refers you to 取り返す, which has the following entry) take back; recover; restore; retrieve; catch up ((with one's work in English)); make up ((for lost time)).

While no dictionary is perfect, it's better than trusting Google Translate (even if it improved a lot, and of course "recoup" is not wrong I guess.) But if you feed it with just the word, it doesn't really tell you that it is already conjugated. If for example you put in a whole sentence like 私は若さが取り戻せる then it's correctly translate that as "I can regain youth".

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Fedya at 2017-06-14 17:16:52 UTC

jakobd2, thank you very much for all that information! Very useful.

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