How to reference the return values from a function?

My assignment is to use nested if statements to construct a simple translator. Yes, I know that's an awful way to do it, but that's what the assignment says. Here's what I have so far:

def translate(word, language):
    '''
    Takes as parameters a string to translate,
    and a second string as the language to translate to.
    Returns the original word, the language, and the word's
    translation in the entered language.
    '''
    en_word = word.lower()
    lang = language.lower()

    #   French
    if lang == "french":
        if en_word == "cat":
            print("chat")            
    if lang == "french":
        if en_word == "dog":
            print("chein")

    #   German      
    if lang == "german":
        if en_word == "cat":
            print("katze")
    if lang == "german":
        if en_word == "dog":
            print("hund")

    #   Spanish      
    if lang == "spanish":
        if en_word == "cat":
            print("gato")
    if lang == "spanish":
        if en_word == "dog":
            print("perro")

translate('cat', 'french')

After being called as translate('cat', 'french'), for example, the output should be:
The translation of cat in French is chat

As it is, my function finds and prints the correct word. I tried using a return statement such as

return en_word, 'French', 'chat' and a print statement such as

print('The translation of', translate[0], 'into', translate[1], 'is', translate[2])

but the error message TypeError: 'function' object is not subscriptable popped up. I could put virtually identical print statements into each end of the if statements in the function, but that seems terribly inelegant.

How can I get the function to return the English word, the language and the translated word to insert into a generic print statement?