Three translations instead of one: what I learned building konid

Literal translation tools give you one answer. That answer has no register, no cultural context, and no way to know whether you're being warm or clinical. I was writing a message to my girlfriend in Farsi — something small, about missing her during the day — and every tool I tried handed me back a single string with no indication of whether it would land tender or transactional. Native speakers don't think in one-answer phrases. They pick from a register range depending on who they're talking to