Creating Termbase (MultiTerm)

Elisa Maxim — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:05:07 GMT

Current Revision posted to Student Guides by Elisa Maxim on 1/22/2026 1:05:07 PM

Multiterm is an important application enabling you to create, manage and present your terminology.

Therefore, it's important to take the time to understand how to create your own termbase.

You can create a termbase, either in MultiTerm or from within Trados Studio itself (you need to have installed MultiTerm)

First go to your project settings, select Termbases and Create- New File-based Termbase

The Termbase Wizard will now open and guide you through the 5 steps...

Create a new termbase definition from scratch

Give your Termbase a name and add the required languages

Add the descriptive fields

Then complete the Entry Structure

Once you click next and confirm, the termbase will be added to the project

When you wish to add a term to the termbase, simply highlight the term in both source and target right click and add term (or CTRL+F2)

Click on Termbase Viewer to view/edit and add (in this example) an image

TIP

For detailed instruction on creating, editing and maintaining your termbase, we have comprehensive documentation here-

Working with Multiterm desktop

Creating Termbase (MultiTerm)

Fiona — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:47:47 GMT

Revision 4 posted to Student Guides by Fiona on 1/26/2022 3:47:47 PM

Multiterm is an important application enabling you to create, manage and present your terminology.

Therefore, it's important to take the time to understand how to create your own termbase.

You can create a termbase, either in MultiTerm or from within Trados Studio itself (you need to have installed MultiTerm)

First go to your project settings, select Termbases and Create- New File-based Termbase

The Termbase Wizard will now open and guide you through the 5 steps...

Create a new termbase definition from scratch

Give your Termbase a name and add the required languages

Add the descriptive fields

Then complete the Entry Structure

Once you click next and confirm, the termbase will be added to the project

When you wish to add a term to the termbase, simply highlight the term in both source and target right click and add term (or CTRL+F2)

Click on Termbase Viewer to view/edit and add (in this example) an image

TIP

For detailed instruction on creating, editing and maintaining your termbase, we have comprehensive documentation here-

https://docs.rws.com/796827/898254/multiterm-2021-sr2/working-with--------------multiterm-desktop

Creating Termbase (MultiTerm)

Oana Nagy — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:42:49 GMT

Revision 3 posted to Student Guides by Oana Nagy on 8/27/2021 11:42:49 AM

Multiterm is an important application enabling you to create, manage and present your terminology.

Therefore, it's important to take the time to understand how to create your own termbase.

You can create a termbase, either in MultiTerm or from within Trados Studio itself (you need to have installed MultiTerm)

First go to your project settings, select Termbases and Create- New File-based Termbase

The Termbase Wizard will now open and guide you through the 5 steps...

Create a new termbase definition from scratch

Give your Termbase a name and add the required languages

Add the descriptive fields

Then complete the Entry Structure

Once you click next and confirm, the termbase will be added to the project

When you wish to add a term to the termbase, simply highlight the term in both source and target right click and add term (or CTRL+F2)

Click on Termbase Viewer to view/edit and add (in this example) an image

TIP

For detailed instruction on creating, editing and maintaining your termbase, we have comprehensive documentation here-

https://docs.sdl.com/796827/641152/sdl-multiterm-2021/working-with-sdl-multiterm-desktop

Creating Termbase (MultiTerm)

Oana Nagy — Fri, 28 May 2021 12:03:20 GMT

Revision 2 posted to Student Guides by Oana Nagy on 5/28/2021 12:03:20 PM

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05.1 Creating Termbase (MultiTerm)

Oana Nagy — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:05:39 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Student Guides by Oana Nagy on 3/3/2021 12:05:39 PM

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