Hello!

Recently I am translating a Go book for beginners. (Korean to English)
Translating itself doesn't seem so difficult, but I found some difficulties in using terms.

1. Can I say 'ataried stones' for indicating stones in atari?

2. Can I use ponnuki as a verb? ex) Ponnuki 5 white stones at the center

3. How should I call the state that black and white both are in atari, and capturing another means not in atari any longer? If I translate the korean term directly, it's something like a) interdependent atari b) related atari c) associated atari

Hello!

Recently I am translating a Go book for beginners. (Korean to English)
Translating itself doesn't seem so difficult, but I found some difficulties in using terms.

1. Can I say 'ataried stones' for indicating stones in atari?
2. Can I use ponnuki as a verb? ex) Ponnuki 5 white stones at the center
3. How should I call the state that black and white both are in atari, and capturing another means not in atari any longer? If I translate the korean term directly, it's something like a) interdependent atari b) related atari c) associated atari
Do you have any specific term for this? Or should I use one of them?

Thanks in advance for your advice, and let me ask you more later!

2. No. I'm not even sure what "Ponnuki 5 white stones" means, but in general I would say "make a ponnuki" as the verb.

2) Ponnuki as a verb seems weird to me, since you "captured" a stone to create a ponnuki. But, why not?

But "make a ponnuki" should mean capturing a single stone to form a diamond shape.

it does NOT signify the resulting shape and doesn't even necessarily refer to the capture of one stone.

This is such a pestilential mistake to get rid of. Ponnuki is a verbal noun based on the verb nuku = capture and has exactly the same verb/noun grammar as atari, hane, nobi and so on.

1. Can I say 'ataried stones' for indicating stones in atari?
2. Can I use ponnuki as a verb? ex) Ponnuki 5 white stones at the center
3. How should I call the state that black and white both are in atari, and capturing another means not in atari any longer? If I translate the korean term directly, it's something like a) interdependent atari b) related atari c) associated atari
Do you have any specific term for this? Or should I use one of them?

1. Can I say 'ataried stones' for indicating stones in atari?

2. Can I use ponnuki as a verb? ex) Ponnuki 5 white stones at the center

3. How should I call the state that black and white both are in atari, and capturing another means not in atari any longer? If I translate the korean term directly, it's something like a) interdependent atari b) related atari c) associated atari
Do you have any specific term for this? Or should I use one of them?

Most swedish players has probably got their definition from "Japanska Go-termer av P-A Lund".
This source says that ponnuki isn't the shape but the action of killing a single stone with minimal number of stones. You say that it doesn't necessarily refer to the capture of one stone, could you please give some example of this. (P-A Lund gives the corresponding term "kame no ko" when two stones are killed, is this also wrong?)

In a Japanese-German dictionary I found

ポンと抜ける = pon to nukeru

German translation is "Zack! Weg ist es." what may be something like "Bang! It has disappeared." in English.

This is such a pestilential mistake to get rid of. Ponnuki is a verbal noun based on the verb nuku = capture and has exactly the same verb/noun grammar as atari, hane, nobi and so on. Unless you believe that it is a debased form of the Japanese that has now got a life of its own in English, it does NOT signify the resulting shape and doesn't even necessarily refer to the capture of one stone.

For Casssandra, pon to nuku is possible, but go players usually abbreviate. All the usual derived verb forms are used, e.g. 白に上の二子をﾎﾟﾝ抜かせた - he let White take two stones above, kerpow! Better English, of course, would be something like "he let White gobble up the two stones above."

that has now got a life of its own in English...