Azerbaijani to Basque: keeping sender, parcel, and recipient distinct
Shared use of suffixes does not mean shared case rules
Azerbaijani and Basque both attach grammatical information to words, but the same participant can require different kinds of marking in the two languages. Azerbaijani uses a nominative subject in ordinary constructions. Basque distinguishes, among other relationships, an absolutive participant from an ergative actor in many transitive clauses.
For a delivery message, first identify the person sending something, the parcel being sent, and the person receiving it. Do not assume that the first name in the Azerbaijani sentence should receive one fixed Basque ending. Its role depends on the action: a courier arriving and a courier delivering a parcel are different constructions.
A particularly useful source clarification is whether somebody sent the parcel or merely asked another person to send it. Keep the requester and the actual sender distinct. Basque case marking cannot recover a participant that the Azerbaijani message leaves unresolved.
The receiver can matter inside the verb phrase
Many Basque sentences combine a main verb with an inflected auxiliary. These forms can reflect more than the actor: agreement may also identify an affected item and a recipient. An auxiliary is therefore not just a detachable equivalent of a tense word.
When changing an Azerbaijani instruction from one parcel to several, translate the whole clause again. Similarly, changing the recipient from one person to a group may require more than replacing the recipient’s name. Basque agreement and the noun phrase need to remain compatible.
Suppose the source says that the office sent documents to a customer, but the next sentence asks the customer to forward them to an accountant. Label each transfer separately before translation. Repeated names can be clearer than a chain of short references when the sender of the second action was the receiver of the first.
A case ending can appear after the description
Basque normally places a case marker at the end of the noun phrase. When a noun has a following adjective, the ending can appear on that adjective rather than directly on the noun. A dictionary search for the bare parcel word will consequently not show every relationship expressed by the complete phrase.
For an instruction identifying a large parcel or a damaged package, keep the descriptive words attached to the correct item in the Azerbaijani source. If two parcels have different destinations, use two complete item descriptions rather than listing both destinations after a shared final pronoun.
Basque also distinguishes a destination from a point of departure with different place forms. In a return request, make clear whether the parcel is coming from the customer, going to the customer, or waiting at a collection point. Reversing the journey is a different error from choosing the wrong recipient.
Check the final translation as a sequence of transfers: who hands over which item, to whom, and at what location. If one of those facts changes, regenerate the relevant sentence. Editing one ending in isolation can leave the Basque auxiliary describing the earlier transfer instead of the corrected one.
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