Hebrew to English Translator

Hebrew marks the gender of the person speaking and the person spoken to on the verb and on some adjectives; English marks neither. A translator that ignores this either guesses (often wrong) or produces an English sentence that reads as generic when the Hebrew was specific. Asking who is speaking and who is being addressed before translating is the difference between a correct sentence and a plausible-looking one.

Register matters as much as grammar. A WhatsApp message full of abbreviations (סופ״ש, חחח) reads differently from a line of a news article, which reads differently again from a verse of Biblical Hebrew. The same Hebrew word can be casual in one register and stilted in another, so a translator has to place the text before it renders it.

Direction matters too: Hebrew to English tends to lose information (gender, some register cues) that English never had to begin with, while English to Hebrew has to add information (which gender, how formal) that the English sentence never specified. The two directions are not mirror images of the same problem.