Amharic to Cantonese: a completed action and a continuing state need different particles
The verb does not need Amharic-style agreement
Amharic verbs cross-reference their subject and can carry an attached object pronoun. Cantonese relies on a different combination of pronouns, particles, and context. The university reference gives 佢 for he, she, or it, so a source distinction between a man and a woman need not remain visible in a target pronoun.
If an Amharic exchange switches responsibility between two people, repeat their names at the transition. Do not infer that a short Cantonese clause is missing a gender ending, or insert an unrelated pronoun to imitate the source's agreement. What matters is whether the intended participant remains identifiable in the complete conversation.
Completion is not simply a past-tense ending
The documented Cantonese 出咗去 describes going out with perfective marking, while 起緊 expresses building in progress. The university examples show that an ongoing construction can be situated at a past time. Aspect and the time of the event are therefore separate things to compare with the Amharic original.
For a work update, distinguish the task's timeline from its completion: yesterday it was still being built, versus it has now been completed. A translation containing a familiar time word is not sufficient if its particle changes the stage of the task. Include that stage explicitly when the Amharic wording is a fragment detached from its original context.
A previous experience is another kind of claim
Cantonese 過 can mark an experience, as in an enquiry about whether somebody has ever eaten a particular dish. This differs from merely stating that an eating event happened at a specific time. An Amharic question about experience should not accidentally become an order-status question about today's meal.
Decide what answer the writer needs: whether the person has tried the food before, whether they already ate, or whether they are eating now. These questions may share an action word but require different event interpretations. Review the target through the answer it would invite instead of judging it by the food noun and eating verb alone.
A reflexive can leave more than one possible owner
The university grammar shows 自己 in a sentence about bringing another person to a room, with more than one possible interpretation of whose room is meant. A reflexive-looking target form should therefore not be treated as a guaranteed solution to an Amharic ownership reference.
Name the owner when that identity determines where someone should go. Finally, keep Cantonese distinct from a generic Traditional Chinese request: sharing characters does not make the spoken language or its particles interchangeable with Mandarin. For this direction, the useful checks are participant identity, event stage, the kind of experience being asked about, and any ownership left implicit in the target expression.
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