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The article presents the effects of research on the translation of German neologisms from the last decade of the 20th century into Polish. The analysis included 42 dictionary entries which were divided into lexemes naming typically German phenomena. The second group proved to be more challenging to translate than the first group following the difficulties with accounting for stylistic features, particularly evaluative ones. The article critically discusses translation options found in German-Polish dictionaries and offers the author’s own suggestions.

The article discusses problems related to translating regionalisms (dialects, extradialectal regionalisms, standards of national varieties in pluricentric languages). Pluricentric languages are languages with more than one national standard variety, e.g. English or German. Dialectal expressions and extradialectal regionalisms must be translated into the standard target language. Translating into a dialect is not an option, since Bavarian is not to become Silesian. A slightly different approach should be adopted when rendering from and into standard national languages. The names of Austrian institutions should be different in Polish from the names of German or Swiss institutions. In case of translation from the Austrian variety into Polish one must analyze words whose meaning in this variety is to be different from those in the German variety, i.e. false friends. When translating documents addressed to Austria in general or Austrian institutions it is recommended that one should write in accordance with standards adopted there. This is due to the fact that both using Austrian terminology and avoiding typical Germanisms are welcome.