Students’ Strategies for Translating Most Frequent English Loanwords in Croatian

English has become the dominant donor language for many languages, including Croatian. Its prestigious status reduces likelihood of borrowed words to adapt a recipient language. As result, some loanwords occur in an unadapted form. Recent computational linguistic resources have given necessary corpus-based data on frequency and use This paper investigates strategies employed by 116 students Faculty Maritime Studies, University Rijeka when asked translate 392 most frequent, corpus-derived into The results were then compared with available data. show that single-word Croatian equivalents preferred over adapted forms multi-word expressions. When no such equivalent was available, used more frequently co-existence their native is reflected responses those do not equivalents. highlight need creating semantically precise equivalents, at same time illustrating resistance accept novel words.