Prijevod s komentarima s naglaskom na leksičke i sintaktičke pomake

This paper presents five translations, three of them from English to Croatian and two from Croatian into English. The texts that were translated were excerpts from five different books, with varying content and all of them from different authors. Additionally, all five books from which the translated content was taken were originally written in the past ten years. The varying content of the translated books aims to present a challenge for the translator who presents their decisions about specific translation cases in the accompanying text at the endnotes. It shows that to create a correct translation of a specific book, it is necessary to understand its complete content and, in some cases, the context in which it was written. Being familiar with the original author helps as well, as then the translator feels more confident about the decisions made since knowing the broader spectrum from which the author pulls his or her motivation to write helps in creating a new text. The work done in this paper on these five translations shows that it is necessary and sometimes even integral for the translator to have a wide knowledge on various real-life topics to create a translation that can be considered good or “correct”. The broad spectrum of activities and occupations in which they delve into yields a better understanding of original thoughts and processes that create translated texts.