How to give context when translating single words?

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Hello,

I am looking for advice on how to get good results when translating single words.

I am using the pretrained model, opus-mt-en-de, and when i try to translate “September” as a single word, i get the wrong translation.

In a sentence it works well.

I tried putting all the months in a row with comma’s or periods.
Now it translated september correctly but skips one month.

How would i go about to add some context when i, for example, want to translate a list of month names?

Another example would be the word “Home” as in; homepage and not a house.
Is there a way of giving context hints when translating?

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Bumping this as I’d love to figure this out as well.

My use case is just slightly different. I have a .srt file (subtitle file) that I’m translating and the text is split on multiple lines for a single sentence. I’d love to be able to pass in the previous line as context. Something kind of similar to openai/whisper condition_on_previous_text option (though that’s kind of a different case).