1. In German, a gramatically correct use of translate (as in, not making you fail a German exam most horribly, unlike the examples above) would be

HELLO aus dem Englischen ins Französische übersetzen

or

Übersetze HELLO aus dem Englischen ins Französische

(( or maybe ))

HELLO vom Englischen ins Französische übersetzen

Übersetze HELLO vom Englischen ins Französische

However, computer users (especially in countries where translated software is common) are used to horrible mistreatment of their language, and do not even notice. One of the reasons is that, while a lot of software and localization libraries are written in english, most european languages are more complicated than english. Allow me to demonstrate:

Übersetze HELLO vom Französischen ins Englische

Note how the language names changed this way around, and remember the discussion about romanian in one of your last posts. The from-language is in the dative case, while the to-language is in the accusative case. The english-based localisation templates are not case-aware, so both language names would come from the same list, which is generally consists of unmodified (nominative) language names, so it would end up being "vom Französisch ins Englisch" which is relatively jarring. The end result might look like the examples from Robert Kaiser above.

Another example that demonstrates "computerized natural language", this time in english:

If you think about it, search and find are not actually synonymous in english. You do not search Hello, you search (the Web) for hello, unless of course you search Hello for Ls, or search your apartement for beer. A similar thing applies to "map": "to map London" does not actually mean "to show a map of London" but instead "to explore London and draw a map of it".

So in effect, both commands in ubiquity are not actually natural language commands, but rather a short-hand that stands for something else.

Therefore if you actually want to translate

search for HELLO

into german it would be

nach HELLO suchen

or

suche nach HELLO

BUT since "suche" is actually "seek" or "find" rather then search, you also can say "suche HELLO [auf http://example.com". Unless I fell victim to the same computerized-language-blindness as my predecessor. To misquote Bones — "I am a programmer, not a linguist!".

1.（找，搜索，寻找） —- / 寻找有关 —- 的讯息 （找，搜索，寻找） = Search/Find

2.用（谷歌/百度）搜索 —- 百度 (Baidu) is the most popular search engine in mainland China 3.将 —- 从英文翻译成法文 4.找 —- [地区]的天气

5.在卓越网上找 —- 买 This one is very awkward - Direct trans. : "On Amazon.com find —- to buy"

Maybe this would be better: 在卓越网上买 —- But it could be misunderstood: "shop" in English in this case means to look up at a e-store, while 买 simply means buy. Therefore, the sentence above could be read as "On Amazon.com buy (things)"

6.电邮 —- 给比尔，寄 —- 给比尔，将 —- 发给比尔 Lit. Trans. : "Email (this) to Bill" / "Send (this) to Bill"
7.电邮 —- 给 —-，寄 —- 给 —-，将 —- 发给 —-

8.找 —- 的地图 Lit. Trans. : "Search for/Find (place)'s map"

9.（找，搜索，寻找）—- 10.换到 —- 的分页 Lit Trans. : "Switch to (tab name)'s tab"

1.用（谷歌）搜索(这个) 2.将（这个）翻译成法文 3.将（此页）加入书签 此页=This page

Some of these would literally not be directly translatable to English, or sound extremely awkward in English because some of the words have no English counterparts. Also, certain word would vary a lot based on context, words like "this" in commands, would have these variations in Chinese:

这个 - This, almost meaningless even with context 这[段/句][话/字] - This sentence/paragraph 这个字 - This word 这个[object]

And so on… Some of these are more natural than others in many contexts.

I toyed with translating the verbs in the imperative form, but infitive is much cleaner ("make a map" in imperative could be "haz un mapa" or "hazme un mapa", literally, "make a map for me", but quite common in speech). So here goes:

1. buscar HELLO (identical to #9; assuming this is "search on web with default engine", then it could turn to "buscar HELLO en la web")
2. buscar HELLO con google
3. traducir HELLO de Inglés a Francés
4. buscar [el] clima de PLACE
5. comprar SHOES con Amazon (lit. "buy SHOES with Amazon", there's no "shop" verb; could also simply be "search SHOES with <some e-store>")
6. mandar correo con HELLO a Bill
7. mandar correo con HELLO a ADDRESS
8. mostrar mapa de PLACE
9. buscar HELLO (identical to #1; if this is "find on page", then it could turn to "buscar HELLO en ésta página")

10. pestaña HELLO / ir a pestaña HELLO

11. buscar esto con google

12. traducir esto a Francés
13. agregar esta pestaña a marcadores (lit. add this tab to bookmarks) OR crear un marcador para esta pestaña (lit. create a bookmark for this tab) OR marcar esta pestaña (mark this tab)

Unfotunately, not one of my suggestions for magic words #3 seems better than the other. At least to me. Other spanish speakers, opine!

For instance, cerca questo con Google

Basic word order / argument structure

1. search HELLO

chercher HELLO /
rechercher HELLO

1. search HELLO with google

(re)chercher HELLO avec/dans google (infinitive form) maybe: recherche google de HELLO (no verb!)

1. translate HELLO from English to French

traduire HELLO de l'anglais vers le français maybe: traduire HELLO d'anglais en français (not really correct but shorter and still understandable)

1. lookup the weather for PLACE

trouver la météo pour PLACE maybe: météo à PLACE (no verb!)

1. shop for SHOES with Amazon

acheter des SHOES sur Amazon

1. email HELLO to Bill

There is no verb to say "send an email". This could work but there would be an ambiguity with IM/SMS: écrire HELLO à Bill ( =write to) / envoyer HELLO à Bill ( =send to)

Longer but not ambiguous:
envoyer HELLO par email/courriel à Bill

1. email HELLO to ADDRESS

Probably less ambiguous due to "ADDRESS" envoyer HELLO à ADDRESS / écrire HELLO à ADDRESS

1. map PLACE

trouver la carte/le plan de PLACE / carte/plan de PLACE (no verb)

1. find HELLO

trouver HELLO / rechercher HELLO dans la page (same as "search HELLO")

1. tab to HELLO or switch to HELLO tab

passer à l'onglet HELLO

… Pronominal/deictic arguments (aka “magic words”)

[1 and 2 don't feel natural but would work, 3 is good because "this" is qualified: you kow it is a tab.]

1. search this with google

(re)chercher ceci/ça avec/dans google

Would work better with:
- (re)chercher cette phrase avec/dans google (search for this sentence…) - (re)chercher ce mot avec/dans google (search for this word…)

1. translate this to French

Traduire ceci/ça en français

Would work better with:
- traduire cette phrase en français (translate this sentence…) - traduire ce mot en français (translate this word…)

1. bookmark this tab

Marquer cet onglet also: Ajouter cet onglet aux marque-pages (for people not familiar with "mark" as a verb to add a bookmark)

1. search HELLO

buscar HELLO

1. search HELLO with google

buscar HELLO com Google

1. translate HELLO from English to French

traduzir HELL do Inglês para Francês

1. lookup the weather for PLACE

Procurar a previsão do tempo para PLACE

1. shop for SHOES with Amazon

comprar SHOES com Amazon

1. email HELLO to Bill

enviar email* HELLO para Bill

1. email HELLO to ADDRESS

enviar email* HELL para ADDRESS

1. map PLACE

mapear PLACE

1. find HELLO

encontrar HELLO

1. tab to HELLO or switch to HELLO tab

guiar/mudar* para ou trocar para aba HELLO

1. search this with google

procurar isto/isso** com google

1. translate this to French

traduzir isto/isso** para Francês

1. bookmark this tab

favoritar* esta/essa** aba

• There doesn't exist a good word that translates these words to Portuguese. We generally use them in English. ** Some words are commonly misused in Portuguese (at least in Brazil, where I live). And there should be some misinterpretation of what to use, since isto/este/esta are used with those things that are closer to the speaker and isso/esse/essa are used with things closer to the listener (I don't know if "this" on those phrases are closer to the user or to the machine). But there's another grammatical rule that says that when we're referencing things that were said or that occurred previously we use esse/essa/isso. I do think this last rule is the most applicable, but I'm not completely sure of it.

1. etsi HELLO
2. etsi HELLO googlesta
3. käännä HELLO englannista ranskaksi
4. tarkista sää PLACE
5. osta SHOES Amazonista
6. lähetä sähköpostissa HELLO Billille (send in an email X to Bill)
7. lähetä sähköpostissa HELLO (osoitteeseen) ADDRESS (without the word in parenthesis "to address" the command's pretty odd)
8. näytä kartalla PLACE (show on map)
9. etsi HELLO
   1. siirry HELLO välilehteen (the other version doesn't make sense to me.. even in english )

Pronominal/deictic arguments (aka “magic words”)

1. etsi tätä googlella
2. käännä tämä ranskaksi
3. lisää tämä välilehti kirjanmerkkeihin

List of commands in Italian.

1. cerca HELLO
2. cerca HELLO su google
3. traduci HELLO da inglese a francese
4. controlla meteo di PLACE
5. compra SHOES su Amazon
6. invia HELLO per e-mail a Bill
7. invia HELLO per e-mail a ADDRESS
8. cerca mappa di PLACE
9. trova HELLO
10. passa alla scheda HELLO

1. search HELLO HELLO 검색하기

2. search HELLO with google HELLO를 구글로(에서) 검색하기 구글로(에서) HELLO 검색하기

3. translate HELLO from English to French HELLO를 영어에서 프랑스어로 번역하기

4. lookup the weather for PLACE PLACE 날씨 알아보기

5. shop for SHOES with Amazon Amazon에서 SHOES를 구매하기

6. email HELLO to Bill Bill에게 HELLO 이메일을 보내기

7. email HELLO to ADDRESS HELLO 이메일을 ADDRESS로 보내기

8. map PLACE 지도에서 PLACE 위치 찾기 지도에 PLACE 위치 출력하기

9. find HELLO HELLO를 찾기

   1. tab to HELLO or switch to HELLO tab HELLO 탭으로 변경하기

Basic word order / argument structure

1. search HELLO

HELLO suchen

Suche HELLO

1. search HELLO with google

HELLO mit Google suchen

Suche HELLO mit Google

1. translate HELLO from English to French

HELLO von Englisch auf Französisch übersetzen

Übersetze HELLO von Englisch auf Französisch

1. lookup the weather for PLACE

Wetter in PLACE anzeigen

Zeige Wetter in PLACE an

("anzeigen" is "show", could use lots of different verbs here, intuitively I probably would try it even without a verb and enter just "Wetter in PLACE")

1. shop for SHOES with Amazon

SHOES bei Amazon kaufen

Kaufe SHOES bei Amazon

1. email HELLO to Bill

HELLO per E-Mail an Bill senden

Sende HELLO per E-Mail an Bill

(those are "send via email", the "to email" Variant is a Germanized English word and not that popular, but would be as follows:)

HELLO an Bill mailen

Maile HELLO an Bill

1. email HELLO to ADDRESS

HELLO per E-Mail an ADDRESS senden

Sende HELLO per E-Mail an ADDRESS

(same as above)

1. map PLACE

Karte von PLACE anzeigen

Zeige Karte von PLACE an

(as with weather, I've used "show map" here but intuitively I'd also probably leave out the verb completely and go for "Karte von PLACE")

1. find HELLO

HELLO suchen

Suche HELLO

(note that we usually use the same word for search and find, though "finden" would exist)

1. tab to HELLO or switch to HELLO tab

Auf HELLO-Tab umschalten /or/ Auf Tab "HELLO" umschalten

Schalte auf HELLO-Tab um /or/ Schalte auf Tab "HELLO" um

…

Prepositional arguments (aka “magic words”)

1. search this with google

Dies mit Google suchen

Suche dies mit Google

(instead of "Dies"/"dies" a probably equal number of people would use "Das"/"das")

1. translate this to French

Dies auf Französisch übersetzen

Übersetze dies auf Französisch

(same as above)

1. bookmark this tab

Dieses Tab als Lesezeichen ablegen

Lege dieses Tab als Lesezeichen ab

(uses "file as bookmark" as there is no "to bookmark" word in German, there are also discussions if "Tab" has male or neutral gender, I used neutral, if male is used, it's "Diesen Tab"/"diesen Tab")

…

note also that in some cases, multiple different prepositions should be accepted, as some people would probably enter "Wetter für PLACE" or even "Wetter auf PLACE" if it's an island, similar things for maps, and the services to shop and search with.

What this has to do with i18n: In German for instance, one could translate "search HELLO" as an imperative ("suche HELLO") or as an infinitive ("HELLO suchen"). The latter seems more natural to me because it'd be the answer to "What do you want to do?" — "HELLO suchen" or "HELLO an Bill mailen". German (and other Germanic languages) might be unique in this respect, though as I've tried to point out above, I don't think my preference for object-verb isn't just language-related. It happens to match my train of thought much better.

Basic: 1. tìm HELLO 2. tìm HELLO với google 3. dịch HELLO từ tiếng Anh sang tiếng Pháp 4. tra cứu thời tiết cho PLACE 5. mua sắm SHOES với Amazon 6. email HELLO tới Bill 7. email HELLO tới ADDRESS 8. bản đồ PLACE 9. tìm HELLO 10. thẻ sang HELLO or chuyển sang thẻ HELLO

Prepositional: 1. tìm cụm này với google 2. dịch cụm này sang tiếng Pháp 3. đánh dấu thẻ này

1. search HELLO

• cerca HELLO

• trova HELLO

  1. search HELLO with google

• cerca HELLO con google

• trova HELLO con google

  1. translate HELLO from English to French

• traduci HELLO dall'inglese al francese

• traduci HELLO da inglese a francese

  1. lookup the weather for PLACE

• guarda il tempo per PLACE

• dammi le previsioni per PLACE

• dimmi le previsioni per PLACE

  1. shop for SHOES with Amazon

• compra le scarpe con Amazon

• compra le scarpe attraverso Amazon

  1. email HELLO to Bill

• invia HELLO a Bill

• spedisci HELLO a Bill

  1. email HELLO to ADDRESS

• invia HELLO a ADDRESS

• spedisci HELLO a ADDRESS

  1. map PLACE

• trova PLACE

• indica PLACE

  1. find HELLO

• definisci HELLO

• ricerca HELLO

  1. tab to HELLO or switch to HELLO tab

• cambia a HELLO tab

• vai a HELLO tab

  1. search this with google

• cerca this con google

  1. translate this to French

• traduci this in francese

  1. bookmark this tab

• segna this tab