Afrikaans to Northern Kurdish: track the actor before changing a pronoun
Ek does not become ez in every construction
Afrikaans uses ek as the subject in both Ek sien and Ek het gesien. Kurmanji, or Northern Kurdish, treats relevant past transitive constructions differently from present ones. The form identifying the actor can be oblique, such as min for the first person, rather than the direct pronoun ez.
Do not replace min with ez simply because the Afrikaans actor remains ek. First establish whether the verb acts on another participant and whether the clause belongs to the past construction. A delivery report and an arrival report can have different grammatical patterns even if both describe yesterday. The difference follows the construction; it does not mean that one sentence suddenly concerns a different person.
The person seen can affect the past verb
In a documented Kurmanji past pattern, wî ez dîtim means ‘he saw me’, while wî ew dît means ‘he saw him’. The actor remains the same, but the other participant and the verb ending differ. Afrikaans Hy het my gesien and Hy het hom gesien do not display that same agreement change on gesien.
When adapting a saved sentence, changing my to hom in the Afrikaans can therefore require more than one alteration in Kurmanji. Translate the affected clause again rather than inserting a pronoun into an unfamiliar verb pattern. In a report involving a sender, recipient and witness, keep each person's role explicit before reviewing agreement. Recognisable vocabulary alone cannot show that those relationships survived.
Se describes possession, not the target linking ending
Afrikaans die man se boek identifies an owner and a possessed item. Kurmanji noun phrases use linking constructions and grammatical gender that Afrikaans se does not supply directly. A target ending attached to the head noun can connect it to a following modifier or possessor.
Identify which noun is the item and which expression names its owner before changing an ending. The owner's gender does not replace the need to know the grammatical form of the possessed noun. If the Afrikaans changes from one book to several books, review the complete target phrase as well. A possession relation can remain the same while its number and linking forms change.
Northern Kurdish is a variety choice as well as a spelling choice
This direction requests Northern Kurdish, commonly called Kurmanji. A Sorani sentence is not made into Kurmanji merely by replacing its alphabet with Latin letters. The varieties differ in grammatical structure and vocabulary. Check that a phrasebook or dictionary actually labels the variety you need before using it to correct the result.
Latin-based Kurmanji uses characters such as ê, î, û, ç and ş. Preserve them when copying the output instead of replacing them with the closest Afrikaans keyboard letters. A capitalised name containing one of these characters is not necessarily an ordinary word awaiting translation. Keep the person's supplied spelling separate from the grammar attached to surrounding nouns and verbs.
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