Amharic to Divehi: preserve the recipient while the script and reference system change
Gendered Amharic address does not require a gendered Divehi pronoun
Amharic distinguishes anta, singular you addressed to a man, from anči, singular you addressed to a woman. These romanized forms illustrate a source distinction that does not transfer as a matching gender contrast into standard Divehi pronouns. The target may preserve the intended recipient without visibly encoding the same information. A common form for two source expressions is not by itself evidence that the translation ignored the recipient.
Respect is a separate question. Amharic has respectful reference, while Divehi has its own historically developed honorific vocabulary and verbal distinctions. The systems should not be matched by treating every longer or plural-looking source expression as ordinary numerical plurality. In a message to one respected recipient, first keep the fact that there is one recipient clear. Then evaluate the target register. Neither male versus female address nor singular versus plural alone establishes an appropriate respectful wording.
A name can carry reference that a pronoun no longer distinguishes
Amharic masculine and feminine forms can help track different participants in a short account. Divehi personal reference does not generally repeat that gender opposition. If an Amharic message alternates between a man and a woman, a Divehi translation may need the names or roles to remain explicit where the actions switch. The aim is to retain who performs each action without adding unnecessary descriptions of gender.
The same care applies to ownership. Amharic suffixes can identify an owner directly on a noun, so a compact source expression may contain more information than a reader unfamiliar with the suffix notices. Before judging a shorter Divehi reference, identify the source owner and the object separately. A report about one person receiving another person’s document is not equivalent to a report about receiving their own document, even if the source presents both relationships inside short forms.
Do not repair right-to-left text by reversing it
Amharic source text and Divehi output do not share a writing direction. Modern Divehi normally uses Thaana, written from right to left. Its consonants carry vowel signs or a sign indicating no vowel. Those small marks are part of the written form, not optional decorations to remove when copying the result. A target word stripped of its marks is not a cleaner version of the translation.
An Amharic message containing a telephone number or Latin booking reference produces mixed-direction content in the target. European digits remain displayed from left to right within Thaana text. A punctuation mark appearing at an unexpected edge can therefore be a display-direction issue rather than a mistranslated number. Copy the complete output into a field that supports right-to-left text and compare the booking code as a separate sequence. Manually reversing the whole line would reverse the code as well and damage the stored text. Keep the logical text sequence intact.
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