English to Lithuanian Translator Keyboard

Why English to Lithuanian is harder than it looks

Lithuanian is the most conservative living Indo-European language. It kept grammar that Latin and Greek lost, including seven cases and a dual number in older usage. A short English sentence lands in Lithuanian carrying far more inflection than the English ever showed.

Names change ending with their role. Even foreign names get Lithuanian endings, so “to John” and “John’s” reshape the word. English keeps the name fixed, which is why translated Lithuanian looks less familiar than you expect.

Adjectives agree in gender, number and case. One English adjective can take a dozen Lithuanian forms. Nothing about this is optional, and it is the most common place for translated text to read as non-native.

There are no articles. Definite and indefinite are inferred, not marked, so going into Lithuanian the distinction simply disappears and coming back it has to be guessed.