YOU SAID:
The bird flew across the sky
INTO JAPANESE
鳥は空を飛んでいった
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Birds flew the sky
INTO JAPANESE
鳥は空を飛んだ
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Birds flew in the sky.
INTO JAPANESE
鳥は空を飛んだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The birds flew the sky.
INTO JAPANESE
鳥たちは空を飛んだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
The birds flew the sky.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.