The ability to translate includes knowing when the original uncertainty should remain uncertain.

Good translation is not only about finding equivalents. Sometimes the original is genuinely vague, deliberately open, or hedged for a reason, and rendering it into something crisp and confident is a distortion dressed as clarity. Preserving a doubt takes more skill than resolving it, because the resolved version always reads better and is often wrong.

The same discipline applies whenever you pass on what somebody said. Keep their hedges, their maybe, their not sure yet, instead of tidying the message into something reportable. Losing an uncertainty is one of the easiest ways to start a misunderstanding nobody intended.