訳やくしにくい

i-adjective

difficult to translate; untranslatable

Describes something that is hard to render in another language, often because of cultural or linguistic differences. 訳しにくい is the everyday form; 訳し難い (やくしがたい) sounds more formal or emphatic.

• この詩しは言こと葉ば遊あそびが多おおくて訳やくしにくい。

  This poem is difficult to translate because of all the wordplay.

• 日本にほん語ごの「お疲つかれさま」は英えい語ごに訳やくしにくい表ひょう現げんだ。

  The Japanese expression 'otsukaresama' is hard to translate into English.