YOU SAID:
My father is lost in the sauce
INTO JAPANESE
私の父がソースで失われる
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was lost in the sauce
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は、ソースで失われました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was lost in the sauce.
INTO JAPANESE
私の父は、ソースで失われました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
My father was lost in the sauce.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.