Catalan to Marathi: the person wanting can appear in a dative construction
A Catalan subject of voler need not remain the target subject
CPNL lists Catalan vull, vols, and vol as personal forms of voler. A source such as an original vull te identifies the speaker as the person wanting tea. That meaning does not require the corresponding Marathi sentence to copy Catalan subject syntax.
Marathi in Context explains impersonal desire constructions in which the person wanting is expressed as an indirect object. Its grammar discusses मला with such expressions. A target dative-shaped personal form can therefore preserve the source experiencer rather than turning that person into somebody who merely receives a separate action.
The desired object can determine agreement in a wanting construction
The Chicago-hosted course contrasts मला कॉफी घ्यायची आहे with मला चहा घ्यायचा आहे for wanting coffee and tea. Its explanation associates the relevant verbal-adjective ending with the direct object. The ending changes with the desired item rather than identifying a different speaker.
For an original Catalan exchange where one person first asks for coffee and then changes the request to tea, retain the same person throughout. A Marathi form changing with the beverage must not be interpreted as a switch from a female speaker to a male one. Conversely, keeping the target ending unchanged simply because the speaker is unchanged can ignore the object’s role in this particular construction.
An activity without a direct object uses a different agreement condition
The course explains that the corresponding wanting construction has default neuter singular agreement when the embedded verb is intransitive. Its account therefore does not ask the reader to find an unspoken direct object in every expression of desire.
Consider a Catalan message contrasting wanting a drink with wanting to leave. The second desire concerns an intransitive activity, not a missing beverage or other item. A Marathi neuter form should not cause an object to be invented merely to explain its ending. Identify whether the source desire concerns obtaining an item or performing an activity, then use the agreement conditions belonging to the selected target construction.
Not wanting an action differs from telling somebody not to perform it
The Marathi course illustrates negative desire constructions, while the Marathi Universal Dependencies documentation identifies नको in prohibitive use as well. These uses must be interpreted through the complete predicate and the conversational act. A negative expression alone is not enough to establish whether the source refuses an action or forbids it.
CPNL likewise separates Catalan affirmative commands from negative prohibitions expressed with subjunctive forms. An original no vull sortir reports the speaker’s wish not to go out; a prohibition directed at somebody else has a different participant and force. Preserve that difference in Marathi. A target expression for what the speaker does not want should not become an instruction imposed on the listener, and a genuine prohibition should not be weakened into somebody’s private preference. Interpret the Catalan experiencer, desired activity, and sentence function together before assessing target dative reference, agreement, or negation.
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