Amharic to Tamil: distinguish a grammatical question from a change of speaker
A question ending can attach to a familiar noun or pronoun
Amharic questions use the source language’s own interrogative forms and verbal patterns. Tamil can form a yes-or-no question by adding an interrogative ending to an expression. The examples நீயா, is it you, and அவனா, is it him, show why a longer target form is not necessarily a different person or an additional participant. The ending asks about the identification.
For an Amharic message confirming somebody’s identity, preserve the difference between asking whether a named person is the one intended and asking who the person is. A target question marker does not make those functions interchangeable. Keep the source question with its possible answer or preceding reference when available. A noun copied from the output without its interrogative material may look like an answer rather than a question, while a question word substituted into a confirmation can request information the sender already supplied.
A source suffix and a Tamil case ending do different jobs
Amharic can attach an owner pronoun to a noun. Tamil uses its own oblique forms and case-related material to express possession and other relationships. A source expression for my object should not be translated by adding the same Tamil ending used for to me or with me. The participant may be the same while the relationship changes.
This matters in an Amharic handover instruction containing an owner, a recipient, and a location. Separate those roles before checking the Tamil noun phrases. An item belonging to a person and an item delivered to that person are not equivalent. Tamil can express the relationships through material attached to its own noun or pronoun forms. A greater number of target characters does not indicate that the translation added an explanation. The source and target simply distribute person reference and grammatical case differently.
Written Tamil and conversational forms need not look identical
An Amharic message translated into standard written Tamil can look different from a spoken phrase that the reader knows. The Tamil course documents the written நீங்கள் alongside the conversational நீங்க for plural or respectful you. These forms illustrate register variation, not a change from one addressee to an unrelated group. The target must still distinguish genuine plurality from respectful reference to one person.
Do not edit a formal translation into a familiar spoken shape merely to make one word recognisable. Pronouns, case forms, and predicates can all vary across written and conversational usage. Mixing a few spoken replacements into otherwise formal Tamil may create an inconsistent result. Instead, match the whole target passage to the function of the Amharic source: a written inquiry, a personal exchange, or a line of dialogue. Preserve a deliberate shift when the source quotes conversation, but keep the quotation boundary so the reader knows why the target register changes.
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