>>62214387
I don't know to what end they do that with russian but losing meaning in translation is normal. It's obvious in english since the americans americanized a lot of words and after confirming their lingua franca status, the traductors might have stopped giving a fuck.

>>62214387
In German it is "Der Große Vaterländische Krieg".
Vaterländisch is kinda hard to translate. Vater = father and "ländisch" = adjektive of "Land". So it would be something like "the big war of the fatherland".
No idea if that is closer to what Russians actually call it.

>>62214602
Im Russischen heißt es Beликaя oтeчecтвeннaя вoйнa
Beликaя = Große
Oтeчecтвeннaя = Adjektiv von Oтeчecтвo = Vaterland
Boйнa = Krieg
Unsere Übersetzung ist korrekt
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>>62214387
Hah, I remember my Russian friend was dumbstruck when I told him he's called "Ivan the Terrible" in the west.

>>62214387
>I noticed more like Ivan the Terrible who is Formidable
Isn't the French 'Terrible' also possibly a positive word like terrific or formidable?
Probably lost in translation from French.

>war
>great

>>62214812
He should be the fearsome I guess, but thats close enough. Its even funnier in Bulgarian because it sounds like hes Ivan the Ugly.

>>62214847
>terrorist attack
>nice

>>62214915
Is that French or English

>>62214843
Its that way in english as well.

Terrible is a word that is often used negatively just because its positive connotations have alternatives that are more favored in common speech these days.

>>62214943
The only thing that matters is that it's not Muslim.

>>62214812

It's "terrible" in the sense of "terrifying" not "bad". You see it in older writing a lot (e.g. Tolkien).