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or when the calque contains less obvious imagery.

Types

One system classifies calques into five groups. This terminology is not universal:
* Phraseological calques: idiomatic phrases are translated word for word. For example, "it goes without saying" calques the French ça va sans dire.
* Syntactic calques: syntactic functions or constructions of the source language

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