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Sending Terms to the AI

Supervertaler can send your termbase entries to the AI as reference during translation, so the model uses your approved terminology instead of guessing. This is on a per-termbase basis and takes one click to enable.

How to enable it

Each termbase in the Termbase Manager has an AI checkbox (the orange/purple tick), separate from the Read/Write activation checkboxes.

  1. Open the Termbases tab.
  2. Find the termbase whose terms you want the AI to use.
  3. Tick its AI checkbox.

That’s the only setup step. From then on, matching terms are automatically included in every translation prompt for the current project.

What happens during translation

When you translate a segment, Supervertaler:

  1. Scans the source text of that segment.
  2. Finds any terms from your AI-enabled termbases that actually appear in it.
  3. Adds them to the prompt sent to the AI under a TERMBASE heading, instructing the model to use those approved terms.

The section added to the prompt looks like this:

# TERMBASE


Use these approved terms in your translation:


- machine learning → machinaal leren
- click → klikken
- widget → ⚠️ DO NOT USE: widget

Only relevant terms are sent

Supervertaler sends only the terms that appear in the current segment, not your entire termbase. Matching is whole-word for spaced languages and substring-based for CJK/Thai. This keeps each prompt focused, avoids diluting the AI with irrelevant terminology, and saves tokens.

Forbidden terms

If you mark a term as forbidden in the termbase, the AI is explicitly told DO NOT USE that translation. This is useful for steering the model away from a wrong-but-tempting rendering, or away from an old term a client has since replaced.

Tips

  • Keep AI-enabled termbases focused. Very large termbases trigger a warning, because sending a lot of terminology can dilute translation quality. Thanks to per-segment filtering this rarely bites in practice, but a tight, curated glossary gives the best results.
  • Works everywhere. Term injection applies to single-segment translation, batch translation, and keyboard-shortcut translation alike.
  • Combine with TM. Fuzzy TM matches are injected alongside termbase terms, so the AI gets both your approved terminology and your existing translations as reference.

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