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Anonymous
February 20, 2014

problem with "The"

I noticed that there is a problem, just a glitch it looks like. When you translate Fin or Faal to english it comes out as the, but when you try to translate "the" to dovalzul it comes up blank. just mentioning it because i think its something that should be fixed because it messes around with wording when youre trying to type in a sentence and parts are missing.

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paarthurnax
Administrator
February 20, 2014

This is actually intentional - the words "the" and "a" are often cut from Dovahzul, so the translator does its best to represent that. Here's some further reading on how the word "the" works in Dovahzul.

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Loniizrath
February 22, 2014

If you capitalize "the" and the word after it, "The" will translate properly. It doesn't work with "a" though.

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paarthurnax
Administrator
February 22, 2014

To expand on that, "the" is usually only used for proper nouns, whereas informal "the" and "a" are rarely used at all.

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