Part of Speech always stay the same through translation?

Question

Do Part of Speech always stay the same through translation?Example is a word which may be only a verb in English possibly translate to another part of speech and perhaps not come across as a verb?

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On this site to learn..if you answered my Q please do so in English.. - raYmOndAtwo, Jul 6, 2015

Is that a direct command mate ? We have members learning both languages Spanish and English , for their benefit we use both languages. - ray76, Jul 6, 2015

u may also write spanish and english in blackets or the other way round so we could keep each other on track - hywire, Jul 6, 2015

Answer 1

They change. For example, in Spanish we have the verb 'gritar'. You can translate that as 'shout', 'scream', 'yell', 'cry', etc. Spanish has only one word for yours, so to be more specific you have to add something else, for example:

When she saw him, she started screaming. Cuando ella lo vió, empezó a gritar de miedo

Take a look at http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/ and you'll see what I mean.

Saludos!

The word prolong was translated as an adjective..English it is a verb.How often does this occure . - raYmOndAtwo, Jul 6, 2015

Prolongar is a verb . - ray76, Jul 6, 2015

Answer 2

When doing translations it's often best to avoid ford for word translation because it ends up awkward in the other language. A huge number of things are said differently in various languages, using the verb, an adjective or even a noun, whatever gives the meaning that is most similar, given the context of the original sentence. This is why human translators are better than machines. So far, anyway. Machines do word by word but they are improving and soon humans will be redundant.

"Word for word" - ray76, Jul 6, 2015

You're right Ray. - annierats, Jul 6, 2015

Actually, you can say 'by' or ' for', I looked it up. - annierats, Jul 6, 2015

palabra por palabra o quizás traducir las palabra una a una? No sé. - annierats, Jul 6, 2015