Bodo to Pashto: keep the actor fixed when a past-tense construction changes agreement
Establish the Bodo action and its participants first
Basumatary’s Bodo pronoun account illustrates different case relationships for calling someone, bringing something to someone and going with someone. Those relationships identify who acts and how other participants relate to the action. They must be recovered from the source construction before interpreting the shape of a Pashto translation.
For a repair report, distinguish the person who repaired an object from the object repaired and the person receiving it afterward. A passage can mention all three in a short span. If an English working gloss uses several occurrences of it or they, replace them temporarily with the intended names or objects so that the roles remain visible.
Pashto past transitive agreement follows a different pattern
The Pashto grammar overview distinguishes active transitive constructions in past and non-past tenses. It describes subject agreement in the non-past and object agreement in the past, together with a change in the subject’s case. It separately treats intransitive and passive constructions. A target verb ending therefore cannot be read as referring to the actor in every sentence.
When the Bodo source identifies the same person across a present action and a past report, the Pashto forms can change without introducing a different actor. Review the whole clause rather than deciding that a changed agreement form must be an error in participant reference. Conversely, an apparently familiar ending does not establish that the intended actor has been preserved.
Event detail inside a Bodo verb is another layer
Boro and Basumatary describe Bodo adverbial suffixes adding meanings such as manner, direction and event-stage information to a verbal base. These contributions need interpretation independently of the actor–object relationship. A detailed source verb can say more about how an event unfolded without changing who performed it.
If a source repair report adds that work was repeated or carried out in a particular manner, preserve that detail while choosing the Pashto construction appropriate to the event. Do not replace a difficult aspect or manner decision by changing the subject. Equally, do not assume that a correct participant map guarantees that all information inside the Bodo verb has survived.
Review the report as a record of responsibility
Make a short comparison containing actor, affected object, event time and any recipient. Check those against the Pashto sentence, then inspect the target agreement in that actual construction. This separates a genuine role reversal from a normal grammatical change associated with past transitive wording. The distinction matters when the report records who completed a task.
After editing the tense or replacing the main verb, repeat the role check. A revision can change the target construction and leave an earlier pronoun or agreement form unsuitable. Read the surrounding sentences too: the person responsible for the action should remain identifiable, while the object should continue to be the thing affected. A grammatical explanation of agreement is useful only when the final message still records the same action, participants and timing that the Bodo sender intended.
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