Comment on Google mistranslates the word because it uses English as a medium(probs).

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balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

In my experience, with the amount of mistakes similar to the one in the OP, I strongly suspect that language is somehow unbelievably close (semantically) to English then.

I decided to quickly experiment with two languages I somewhat know, and got 3/3 incorrect translations consistent with English as intermediary:

It makes exactly the same mistakes if you translate from Russian to Spanish and French too.

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