Basque to Armenian: a future plan and a conditional consequence need the whole verb form
The Basque ending is not the entire prediction
Idazle honek eleberri bi idatziko ditu says that this writer will write two novels in Laka’s grammar. The form idatziko combines with the present auxiliary ditu. Translating into Armenian requires that whole combination: the ending on the main verb is not an independent guarantee that every sentence containing it is a straightforward future prediction.
Laka uses the term unrealized for this Basque aspect and explains that it also participates in conditional constructions. The choice of auxiliary and the surrounding clause distinguish a future event from a hypothetical consequence. A translator who reads only the visible future-looking ending can therefore turn a possibility into an announcement.
An Armenian grammatical label can also be misleading in isolation
The Armenian Universal Dependencies description notes that forms classified as subjunctive or conditional can have present or imperfect morphological tense labels while expressing future meaning. This is a warning about labels, not a rule that all Armenian conditional forms express the same function. An analysis marked conditional does not by itself prove that the translation must add an if-clause.
For the writer’s two novels, preserve what the Basque source actually predicts. A target sentence that says the writer would write them if something else happened adds a dependency absent from that example. Conversely, a source consequence that depends on a condition should not become an unconditional statement simply because an Armenian form can refer to future time.
The two-novel quantity also remains part of the prediction. The unresolved timing of a future event does not make the quantity vague. If a literary announcement commits to two novels, a translation about writing novels in general weakens a separate piece of information even if it handles future reference correctly.
Keep the condition attached to its consequence
Laka illustrates a conditional sequence in which Miren coming is the condition for Mikel leaving. The Basque unrealized form appears within a larger construction that carries this dependency. The Armenian rendering must preserve who comes, who leaves and which event is conditional on the other, rather than merely reproduce a list of future-looking actions.
In arranging a meeting, there is a practical difference between saying that one person will leave and saying that the person would leave if another arrived. The first can settle a timetable; the second describes a contingent arrangement. Losing the condition could prompt somebody to make plans around a departure that was never asserted as certain.
For Basque into Armenian, read the main verb together with its auxiliary and any conditional clause before choosing the target construction. Preserve a prediction as a prediction and a conditional consequence as dependent on its condition. Grammatical labels such as future, unrealized and conditional help describe the forms, but the event relationship determines what the recipient is being told.
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