Thread:Sprachkind/@comment-5189167-20120615045958/@comment-4949963-20120622141653

In contemporary Standard German, a Rammbock is a battering ram only, and a male sheep is a Widder or Schafbock (or Hammel if castrated). But I looked it up in the DWB and elsewhere and it appears that Rammbock (literally "ram buck") has historically been used for a male sheep. So it's up to you.

Of the word Wal "whale", Wale is the nominative plural and Walen is dative plural. Nominative is the standard case, hence the one to be used in an other-language text. Schwertwal literally is "sword-whale" and the German name for the animal orca.

P.S.: For curiosity's sake, are you using an online machine translator, and if so which one? (Also because then I could follow/retrace and thus explain your options, etc.)