While you can translate the immediate meaning, either word-for-word or with a description, this will not give the full collection of meaning and concepts the wo

While you can translate the immediate meaning, either word-for-word or with a description, this will not give the full collection of meaning and concepts the word has to the culture it's from. An example in the reverse direction is "accuracy" and "precision", which have different, well established meanings in English, but translate to the same thing in German, "Genauigkeit". Weltschmerz and Schadenfreude are examples where Germans have a wider net of associated concepts around it. To capture all of that, you would have to do more than translate it. For example, there is a commonly understood limit of what Schaden you can have Freude about, and what modifies that limit. I find it fascinating how the existence or non-existence of certain concepts in a language influence our approaches at problem solving.