Talk:change of heart

What should be done when a idiom in another language has the same meaning, only it's a verb for example and not a noun? For example, the Icelandic idiom sjá sig um hönd means to "have a change of heart" but this entry is change of heart, how can I add it as a translation? --BiT 17:38, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Just adding my two sense [sic] here, although I imagine EP will have a more well thought out opinion. I think that the Icelandic translation should be entered as usual in the translation table with, at most, the word verb in parentheses following it. What would really be best is if the term is given an entry so that users can click it to learn more about the term. I imagine most users will understand that translations are never one to one. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 05:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I would add the translation, and would like to see it as an entry, but I wouldn't bother with the parenthetical part of speech. We don't include that information in the Translations section, and it isn't all that unusual for the part of speech to change in translation anyway. For example, the Navajo translation of (deprecated template usage) year is a verb. Or see the usage note for Slovene (deprecated template usage) španščina, which explains that the noun "Spanish" is translated as a noun when used as the subject of a sentence, but in the predicate is translated as an adverb. We cannot put this kind of information into the Translations section; it belongs on the translation's entry. --EncycloPetey 14:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)