The goal of this article is to sum up the results of the analysis of the translations of some German modal particles into Basque. The data derives from our thesis on the translation of German children’s literature into Basque, which was conducted following a descriptive methodology and using a wide digital corpus of 33 original German works and their translations. As in the corpus there are direct as well as indirect translations, this article also examines the different results obtained by comparing direct and indirect translations. German modal particles are very frequent, especially in oral and informal written speech. Thus, the analysis of their translation into a minority language like Basque enables us to delve into the problem of translating oral discursive elements into a language where the creation of fictional orality seems to be fairly complex. A special attention is given to measuring the level of standardization and observation of interference cases.