DeepL glossaries: prepare company terms for document translation

DeepL’s glossary guide describes a list of source terms and preferred translations. English and Hungarian are supported, but you cannot choose regional language variants when creating a glossary. Entries follow the target language’s grammar; they are not a literal replacement list. Free users’ entries remain in their browser.

Prepare a small terminology trial

DeepL’s preparation guidance recommends company, industry and audience terminology, including names that should remain untranslated. For a practice task, you could choose an invented product name and two service terms from a short product sheet. Agree their preferred translations with your company’s technical or marketing colleagues before entering them.

Create the glossary

Follow the manual creation steps: sign in to the web translator, open Glossaries, start a new glossary, select manual creation and continue. Name it, choose the language pair, then enter the source term and preferred target translation. Add further pairs if needed and create the glossary. Each entry must be unique. Adding the reverse language direction is optional; it creates another entry.

Apply it to a file

In the web file translator, select your file and set its language pair. Open the toolbar and select your glossary; selection enables it automatically. The file’s source and target languages must match the glossary. Selecting None set in the glossary list disables glossaries for file translation. This workflow requires signing in.

For your trial, we suggest checking the translated product name and service terms against the choices you agreed beforehand. Record which terms need correction. This checks your terminology choices in context; it is a proposed exercise, not a claim that we tested the tool.