Afrikaans to Lower Sorbian: make the pair, the activity and the destination explicit
Ons does not reveal whether exactly two people act
Afrikaans ons covers a pair and a larger group without changing its form. Lower Sorbian retains a productive dual, a grammatical category for two. A source message saying Ons kom môre therefore leaves a decision that can affect the target wording: does it concern the sender and one companion, or a group of three or more?
If two people share an appointment, Ons twee kom môre makes their number explicit. Do not infer a dual audience simply because two names occur somewhere in an email: the action may involve a larger team. Identify the participants in each clause. A reply about two visitors and a later statement about all the organisers can require different number choices within one translated exchange.
Het plus a participle does not settle verbal aspect
Afrikaans commonly reports past actions with het and a participle. Lower Sorbian also requires attention to verbal aspect: an activity considered as a process or repetition differs from an event presented as a completed whole. A past-time label alone does not choose the intended verb.
Ek het aan die verslag gewerk says that the speaker worked on the report; Ek het die verslag voltooi says it was completed. These are different commitments. Keep the difference in an Afrikaans progress update rather than shortening both messages to a vague reference to the report. If a Lower Sorbian result uses a different verb form to preserve completion, replacing it with the dictionary form most familiar to you can erase that distinction.
Gaan followed by another verb needs its actual meaning
Afrikaans gaan can describe movement, but it also participates in expressions about an intended or future activity. Lower Sorbian retains a supine, a special nonfinite form typically following verbs of movement. The translator must therefore recognise whether the source actually says that somebody goes somewhere to do something.
In a sentence about going to a particular place to work, preserve the destination and purpose. In a prediction about what will happen later, do not add a journey that the source does not describe. An unfamiliar nonfinite form after a motion verb can be appropriate Lower Sorbian grammar; it is not automatically a typo that should be replaced with the first infinitive listed in a vocabulary entry.
Use Lower Sorbian resources when checking the result
Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian are separate target choices, and neither is Serbian. A related-looking word found under another language label does not confirm the Lower Sorbian spelling. The Sorbian Institute provides dedicated Lower Sorbian dictionaries, spelling resources, corpora and name information; choose the resource matching this direction.
Afrikaans spelling habits do not justify stripping Lower Sorbian letters such as ś, ź or ł. These belong to the written word. German-looking vocabulary may also occur because of longstanding contact, sometimes with Lower Sorbian inflection attached. Check the complete form and meaning instead of treating every familiar-looking item as untranslated German, or replacing it with an unrelated Afrikaans cognate.
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