Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A calque or loan translation in linguistics consists of the borrowing of a phrase from one language into another, in the process of which individual "words" native to the borrowing language semantically match the individual "words" in the source language. Thus: English Superman calques German Übermensch English Governor-General calques French gouverneur général This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.