Question: I am in search for a database with translations so I can have comonly used phrases and words translated by a machine and not by an expensive translator. Is there such a thing as a translation database with words and often used phrases?

If you don't know any would you use such a service?

edit: the database should only be monitored by people and not some automatic translater since they tend to be VERY bad

Answer: 
Check: [open-tran.eu](http://open-tran.eu/). It is a database of translations taken from various open source projects.
<http://www.google.com/language_tools>