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by ein0p 742 days ago
You can’t translate word by word. You need entire phrases, sometimes pretty long ones, to understand the meaning.
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sometimes, but in a constrained situation, e.g. at a hotel reception desk, maybe not.
So what would you do if translating from a language that puts the main verb at the end of a sentence, into a language that doesn't...

Feels like there will be plenty of cases you can't just get around.

Not to mention that sometimes you need more than one sentence to get the full meaning