Talk:Master of the Hellish Yard (song)/@comment-7342272-20140904202726/@comment-6192846-20140904205113

From what came up, they translate it to their closest tense (as the lyrics show). The archaic mechanic apparently only exists in English and German grammar and isn't directly translateable.

Something similar happens with the the last line. Technically speaking, "sons of bitches" is literally "shithead" also translated as "bastard", but that was the term used to translate the curse into Japanese (also based on what came up).

I'm no student of linguisitics so I can't say more than that on how those famous translations work from language to language.