> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/ai-suite/smart-columns/smart-works/translation.md).

# Translation

The translation smart work allows you to dynamically translate any of your respondent text entries. Translations can be very handy specially in multi-language surveys were you collect feedback from respondents in various languages and want to be able to have a translation of those feedback into one target language that you understand.  

## 🔅 Translation properties

* **`Source answer column`**is the column of your respondents dataset that will be used as source for the translation.
* **Target language** language in which the text will be translated. 

Below is an example of a smart column "Review in  french" that translates the review answers into French.

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