Bangla to Turkish: his house and to his house require different layers of endings
A source owner word does not complete the Turkish possession phrase
Dimock, Bhattacharji, and Chatterjee give Bangla আমার for my and তার for ordinary his or her. Turkish Textbook’s possession lesson describes marking on both the owner and the owned noun. A translation must therefore do more than replace the Bangla owner expression and leave the following target noun untouched.
For example, benim babam means my father, with the ending on babam contributing to the ownership construction. The same lesson illustrates onun babası, his or her father, with a different owned-noun ending. The distinction is tied to the owner relationship, rather than a change in the lexical meaning father.
The third-person owner need not acquire an invented gender
The Turkish possession table uses onun for his or her, without requiring different masculine and feminine owner forms. Bangla তার likewise does not distinguish those two owner genders. This is an area where the target can preserve an ambiguity already present in the source instead of resolving it arbitrarily.
The Bangla course separately presents honorific তিনি for respectful reference. Its social distinction is not supplied merely by choosing a masculine or feminine English paraphrase. When interpreting a Bangla ownership phrase for Turkish, the translator should identify the intended owner and relationship without treating gender assignment as a necessary intermediate step.
A further case ending follows the possession ending
Turkish Textbook’s case-marking lesson explains an intervening n after a third-person possessive or the corresponding compound-noun ending. Its house paradigm contrasts onun evi, his or her house, with onun evine, to his or her house, and onun evinde, at his or her house.
A Bangla message identifying someone’s home and then directing a person there requires both ownership and destination in the Turkish form. Reusing evi unchanged would lose the destination relationship. Adding an ordinary bare-noun ending without accounting for the existing possessive layer would mishandle the target boundary. The extra n is not a separately translated Bangla word; it belongs to the Turkish combination.
Source noun endings and source verb endings answer different questions
The Bangla course discusses locative and genitive noun forms, while the University of Texas analyzes verbal forms through root, aspect, tense, and person. These are distinct sources of grammatical information. A source verb’s person ending can identify who acts, but it cannot by itself establish who owns a house mentioned elsewhere in the clause.
Likewise, Bangla’s ordinary subject–object–verb order, described by the Texas resource, is not a guarantee that the Turkish noun relationships are already represented correctly. Even where the main verb remains late in both languages, a target possessed noun can accumulate ownership plus location or destination information. A compact Turkish word may consequently express several source components. Its completeness should be judged by those relationships, rather than whether every source component has become a separate visible target word.
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