Bangla to Telugu: ours must identify both owners and the owned thing
One group can own one object or several
A Bangla possessive expression tells the reader whose property is involved, but a Telugu possessive pronoun may also distinguish the number of things possessed. Vemuri’s grammar lists separate forms for an exclusive group’s single possession and multiple possessions. These are not alternative spellings that can be exchanged freely.
The documented contrast mA-di and mA-vi means ours with a singular and plural possessed referent respectively. Imagine translating two Bangla replies, one identifying a single bag and another identifying several bags belonging to the same group. The owners have not changed. The target possessive nevertheless changes because the reply points to a different number of bags.
The listener may or may not share ownership
The same Telugu paradigm separates inclusive and exclusive ownership. Its inclusive forms ma-na-di and ma-na-vi again distinguish a singular and plural referent. A translator therefore makes two decisions: whether the listener belongs among the owners, and whether the expression refers to one thing or several.
Bangla amra establishes a speaker-containing group without independently choosing between these Telugu inclusion categories. In a conversation about shared equipment, the listener might be a co-owner or merely the person asking who owns it. Translating every source reference to our property with one Telugu form would erase that difference. A change of audience can require a change of possessive even when the equipment inventory stays identical.
Polite you introduces another independent distinction
Bangla apni marks respectful address, while familiar tumi has a different relationship to the listener. Vemuri’s respectful possessive pair mI-di and mI-vi supplies another singular-versus-plural distinction for the possessed referent. Respect toward the owner does not determine how many objects that owner has.
A polite Bangla question about whether this is yours and a polite question about whether these are yours should consequently not receive an identical isolated Telugu possessive. Nor should the plural-object form be interpreted as proof of several owners. In lost-property exchanges, confusing those dimensions can make a grammatically plausible answer point to the wrong collection of objects.
An attached possessor and an independent answer are different tasks
The Bengali grammar describes genitive endings used before a following noun or another relational expression. A source genitive attached to the name of an object is not automatically the same construction as a standalone answer meaning ours. First identify whether the translated expression names the possession or substitutes for it.
A Bangla label that explicitly names several books gives the translator an overt number clue. A short reply referring back to those books leaves that clue in the preceding sentence. Telugu possessive selection still depends on it. Reading only the reply can produce a singular-object form even though the conversation has already established a plural set. The relevant translation unit is therefore the ownership exchange, not just the last visible pronoun.
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