BTW żegnała encodes the gender. If it was he it would be żegnał. So arguably it's more compressed than latin.
BTW2 the real compression happens in conditionals żegnałaby = she would have said goodbye
Kolor - color Farba - paint Barwa - hue
Also Polish is surprisingly similar to Sanskrit, for example only recently I realized that budzik (alarm clock) pobudka (waking up someone as a noun) and all related bud- words have the same word root as Buddha (the awaken one). Blew my mind :)
I'm not sure if those are still in generic use but when I lived there long ago these were Western brands that you simply could not buy in Poland and so the brand names became stand-ins for the objects themselves.
The Buddha reference is hilarious!
Does demais in portuguese mean too much, or too many times?
(*) if you drop the pronoun you can even sing the Latin lyrics on the same division. :)
In colloquial pt_BR that would be 'Ela disse adeus muitas vezes [antes]'
I could be, but it wouldn't sound natural in pt_BR colloquial mode.
'Ela disse adeus demasiadas vezes'.
*I'm a natural pt_BR speaker. I would never say it this way in a conversation. Too perfect to be colloquial.
From the comments on stackexchange: "if the context refers to this person enough to make it clear who "she" is, it should also make it clear who "he/she/it/they" is."
She said bye often.
5 syllables.
For some reason, it's fine to lose most of the meaning when translating to Portuguese or Latin for simplification - but it's not okay to just simplify in English.
One thing you should consider is that, in English, you cannot omit the "she" pronoun without making the sentence incorrect or unclear, since modern English does not have declensions for the grammatical person. But in other languages it is not only correct, but speakers do drop the pronouns when they speak. This is what the commenter was referring to when they said "That translation strikes me as overly literal, trying to keep a match for each English word. I'd go more idiomatic with this.".
I agree that the translation I provided is not 100% word-for-word perfect, since it drops a detail while trying to maintain the original message and compress it as much as possible, but saying that it lost most of its meaning is very unfair.