Translating English lexical verbs VS. multiword verbs into Arabic

الملخص EN

This paper tackles an important topic in English language teaching and translation which is multi word verbs.

Multi word verbs can be classified into three types, phrasal, prepositional and phrasal + prepositional verbs.

Multi word verbs form an obstacle for the students in translation, because these structures are unfamiliar for them and they also belong to idiomatic expressions within spoken English.

The test in this paper is conducted on (10) students, Department of translation.

The test consists of (20) sentences, (10) of them consist of multi word verbs, while the other sentences consist of (10) lexical verbs, within the same context.

The results show that the students are weak to some extent in translating multi word verbs