Incorrect translation of Spanish verb "son" rendered as "hijo"

[Edward-Martinson]

I encountered a translation issue in DFInt where the Spanish verb "son" (third person plural of "ser", meaning "are") is incorrectly translated as "hijo".

It appears that the installer is mapping the English word "son" (family relation) directly into Spanish without considering grammatical context. As a result, sentences that should use the verb form "son" are being replaced with "hijo", which breaks meaning and grammar.

Example:

Correct Spanish: Ellos son fuertes.

Current output: Ellos hijo fuertes.

This seems to be a context-insensitive word mapping issue between the English noun "son" and the Spanish verb "son."

The Spanish verb "son" (from "ser") should not be replaced with "hijo" unless the original English word refers specifically to the noun "son" (male child).

[insolor]

This is a double translation (are -> son -> hijo), this is a known problem (for example, for German: the -> die -> sterben, or for Polish: they -> one -> jeden). We can't fix it at the moment, unfortunately.

[Edward-Martinson]

This is a double translation (are -> son -> hijo), this is a known problem (for example, for German: the -> die -> sterben, or for Polish: they -> one -> jeden). We can't fix it at the moment, unfortunately.

Thank you for the clarification — that makes sense.

As a temporary workaround, one possible mitigation could be to translate "are" as "serían" instead of "son."

"Serían" is the conditional third person plural form of the verb "ser" (e.g., they would be). While it is not grammatically identical to "son" (present indicative, third person plural: they are), it remains understandable in most contexts and would avoid the collision with the noun "son" → "hijo."

Additionally, I would be interested in understanding why this happens at a technical level.