Afrikaans to Kannada: clarify wat, possession and respectful address
Wat can hide two different roles
Afrikaans uses wat in relative clauses without changing that word to show whether the described person performs or receives an action. Die man wat my gesien het and die man wat ek gesien het identify different relationships. Kannada can express such descriptions through a participial construction before the noun, rather than a separate word corresponding to Afrikaans wat.
Keep my and ek in those source clauses: they establish who sees whom. A Kannada relative participle does not by itself encode every participant's role, so the surrounding words and case forms matter. Do not assume the absence of a separate wat means the description was dropped. Check which man the phrase identifies and how that person relates to the main action of the sentence.
The work and its description can appear in another order
The documented Kannada phrase nānu māḍida kelasa means ‘the work which I did’. The description precedes kelasa, ‘work’. Afrikaans places its corresponding relative clause after die werk. Moving the Kannada noun to the front simply to imitate Afrikaans can disrupt the construction.
For an instruction referring to a document someone approved, identify both the document and the approving person. Then distinguish that descriptive event from the instruction to send, file or revise it. A long Afrikaans sentence can contain several actions with different participants; keeping those roles clear is more useful than expecting every clause to occupy its original position in the target.
U and julle need a whole-clause review
Kannada ನೀನು, nīnu, is a singular familiar second-person form, while ನೀವು, nīvu, is plural and also used respectfully for one person. Afrikaans u can therefore correspond to wording that resembles a plural construction without changing the number of recipients. Julle, by contrast, explicitly concerns more than one addressee.
A message to one teacher and a message to several students may share a visible pronoun form while retaining different social meanings. Identify the actual audience before adapting a saved request. Kannada verbal agreement also belongs to that choice, so replacing only the pronoun is insufficient. A polite singular sentence should not acquire an invented group merely because a target form has plural uses.
My stays unchanged in Afrikaans, but its target role need not
Afrikaans uses my in both a possession phrase such as my huis and an object phrase such as hy sien my. Kannada distinguishes grammatical case forms: nānu is I, while nannannu can function as me in a seeing construction. The identical Afrikaans spelling does not justify inserting the same Kannada form into both roles.
Treat the Kannada noun phrase and its case relationship together. Preserve the script's vowel signs and consonant combinations when copying the translation; they are not optional marks added to an Afrikaans-letter stem. If a display looks crowded, check its rendering before deleting characters. A cleanly displayed phrase still needs the correct owner, observer and observed person.
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