Create a glossary

There are multiple ways to create glossaries for your translation with DeepL.

When creating a glossary, every entry must be unique; you should not provide alternative translations for any terms.

See below the various ways you can create your glossary.

Create a glossary manually

A glossary can be created via the web translator and in the desktop apps.

1. Go to our web translator
2. Log in with your DeepL account
3. Click Glossaries in the navigation bar on the left-hand side
4. Click +New glossary
5. Select Create a glossary manually and click Continue
6. Enter a glossary name
7. Select the correct language pair
8. Enter your first term in your source language under Source and the respective preferred translation under Target
9. (Optional) Click Add term for both language directions to create an additional glossary entry in which the source and target terms and languages are reversed
10. (Optional) Click Add term pair to add more entries
11. Click Create glossary

Create a glossary from a sample

You can use one of 5 pre-made, multilingual sample glossaries and customize them.

1. Go to our web translator
2. Log in with your DeepL account
3. Click Glossaries in the navigation bar on the left-hand side
4. Click +New glossary
5. Select Start with an example and customize it and click Continue
6. Select a sample glossary from one of the following topics:
   1. Brand marketing / advertisement
   2. Legal
   3. Finance / accounting
   4. IT / technical terms
   5. Interface terms (UX/UI)
7. Click Create glossary

Upload a glossary

You can upload several entries to the glossary at once. For more information on uploading several entries at a time, see this article. 

Generate a glossary

You also have the option to generate a glossary from previously translated files via the glossary generator. For more information, see this article.

Glossary suggestions

When using the Alternatives feature while at least one glossary is selected, a new option will appear in the toolbar named Glossary suggestions. Clicking on this option will show you suggestions for glossary entries based on the alternatives you used. You can approve these suggestions by entry or accept them all at once.