How can I use ARRAYFORMULA (or something similar) with GOOGLETRANSLATE?

Question

I'm learning a new language and I recently discovered Google Sheets' GOOGLETRANSLATE function. I thought it'd be neat to have a personal dictionary of translations which I can even annotate. So I created a simple sheet that translates words from column A in column B. So far so good.

The problem is I can't tell Google Sheets to "translate every cell in column A to column B". I used ARRAYFORMULA but it doesn't work as expected. =ArrayFormula(GOOGLETRANSLATE(A2:A,"en","de")) only results to

As you can see, only B2 is translated, not everything else.

FWIW, dragging the fill handle down still works but I want an endless dictionary of such translations. I created the sheet on the web app but I use it primarily via the Android app. I want to just type the word in column A and get its translation. Unfortunately, if the fill handle even works in mobile, I don't know how to trigger it. (And I know this forum is for web apps so I'm going to stop right there.)

Answer 1

ARRAYFORMULA does not support GOOGLETRANSLATE. The best you can have is to pre-program the array like this:

={GOOGLETRANSLATE(B20, "en", "de");
  GOOGLETRANSLATE(B21, "en", "de");
  GOOGLETRANSLATE(B22, "en", "de");
  GOOGLETRANSLATE(B23, "en", "de");
  GOOGLETRANSLATE(B24, "en", "de")}

Another workaround would be to join stuff:

=ARRAYFORMULA(TRIM(TRANSPOSE(SPLIT(
 GOOGLETRANSLATE(TEXTJOIN(". ", 1, B20:B24), "en", "de"), "."))))

You may also resolve it via script or with API calls: https://developers.google.com/apps-script