Translation (Spanish–English / Spanish–Marathi)
Translation appears in both directions: Spanish into English and Spanish into Marathi. Marks are awarded per clause, so a half-translated sentence still earns partial credit - but only if the structure is rebuilt rather than copied word for word.
Step-by-step method
- Read the whole sentence; find the main verb and its tense.
- Identify the subject, which Spanish often hides in the verb ending.
- Translate clause by clause, preserving tense, number and register.
- Re-read the target sentence on its own: does it sound natural?
Spanish into English
Keep idiomatic time expressions: hace dos años = two years ago; desde hace un mes = for a month; acabo de llegar = I have just arrived; volver a + infinitive = to do again. The impersonal se becomes an English passive or a generic subject: «Se habla español» → «Spanish is spoken». Diminutives and intensifiers need judgement, not literal padding.
Spanish into Marathi
Marathi is SOV with postpositions and a verb-final clause, so Spanish order must be reversed. The verb agrees with its subject in person, number and gender: «Tengo dos hermanos» → «मला दोन भाऊ आहेत», not a literal «मी दोन भाऊ आहे». Match the honorific level: तू for a close friend, तुम्ही for peers and elders, आपण in formal writing.
Worked example
«Se venden flores en la plaza.» English: Flowers are sold in the square. Marathi: चौकात फुले विकली जातात. Reasoning: «se venden» is passive with a plural subject, so English keeps «are sold» and Marathi uses the passive «विकली जातात» with neuter plural agreement. A rendering like «तो फुले विकतो» invents a seller who is absent from the source.
Traps
Word-for-word rendering that preserves Spanish syntax; literal idioms (tomar el pelo = to tease, not to take hair); losing the negation in «no... nada»; forgetting that Marathi verbs carry gender; leaving whole phrases untranslated in Spanish.