Why Lithuanian to English is harder than it looks
The endings carry the sentence. Lithuanian marks case, number and gender on nouns and adjectives alike, which lets word order move freely. English word order is fixed, so the sentence has to be read whole and rebuilt.
No articles means English has to supply them. Nothing in Lithuanian distinguishes “a” from “the,” so the translator infers it, and a short message gives little to infer from.
Participles do work English spreads across clauses. Lithuanian has an unusually rich set of them, folding into one word what English needs “who was” or “having done” to express.
Diacritics separate real words. Dropping ą, ė or ū is common when typing quickly and leaves genuine ambiguity, since the marks distinguish both sounds and grammatical endings.
Written by Hardik Vegad, Co-founder, Translatify. Last updated .
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