7. The method of claim 5 , wherein each data structure mapping at least a portion of the identified physical values to the corresponding translated values defined in the selected language is identified on the basis of the identified user-specific settings.
7. The method of claim 5 , wherein each data structure mapping at least a portion of the identified physical values to the corresponding translated values defined in the selected language is identified on the basis of the identified user-specific settings. 8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the query is an abstract query comprising a plurality of logical fields defined by a data abstraction model abstractly describing the physical data in the multilingual database, the method further comprising: identifying, from the plurality of logical fields, at least one logical field having one or more allowed values, at least a portion of the one or more allowed values corresponding to values in one or more of the plurality of different languages in the multilingual database; retrieving one or more language resource components configured to transform the one or more allowed values into the corresponding values defined in one or more of the plurality of different languages, the corresponding values including at least a portion of the alternative values; and generating at least one of the one or more identified data structures on the basis of the retrieved one or more language resource components.