Overcoming the problem of cultural untranslatability in Burnett’s the secret garden from English into Indonesian

This study aimed at investigating the untranslatable cultural terms found in novel from English into Indonesian since not all Source Text can be fully transferred Target as well translator’s decision to overcome problem of untranslatability and have very different concepts. was a data-driven by using The Secret Garden’s written Burnett (1911/2019) (ST) its translation Kusumawardani (2020) (under same title) (TT). data were analyzed descriptive-mix-comparative methods that combined theory Newmark’s (1988) categorization procedures. As result, untranslatability, translator frequently employs transference, naturalization, notes From in-depth analysis, transference retaining SL’s cultures TL is used avoid mistranslation because lacks formally corresponding feature. Naturalization adapting SL cultural-specific words TL's normal pronunciation morphology there are designation similarities both TL. Meanwhile, form in-text annotations footnotes strengthen translator's role highlighting her results. Nevertheless, commonly conjunction with naturalization reduce strangeness, leaving too many references weakens result.