Czech to Kannada: not with me differs from not mine
A book’s location and its owner are separate facts
The JNU Kannada course contrasts ಆ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ನನ್ನ ಬಳಿ ಇಲ್ಲ, that book is not with me, with ಆ ಪುಸ್ತಕ ನನ್ನದಲ್ಲ, that is not my book. Both are negative statements involving the speaker and a book, but they deny different relationships.
An original Czech reply saying that the requested book is not currently with the writer should not become a denial of ownership. Someone can own a book stored elsewhere, or carry a book belonging to another person. Preserve whether the source denies present availability or possession as ownership before deciding which Kannada predicate communicates the answer.
Czech possessive agreement does not identify the place where an item is kept
Czech UD distinguishes possessive reference from the agreement features matching the possessed noun. A possessive in a Czech book description identifies a relationship to an owner; it does not necessarily assert that the owner currently carries the book.
Consider an original exchange asking whose copy is on the desk, followed by a question asking whether the writer can bring it. The first requires identifying the owner. The second concerns access to the copy. A Kannada translation that uses one ownership construction for both may confirm whose book it is without answering whether the person has it available. Keep the described book constant while preserving the different relationship each source question asks about.
A negative description is different from a negative assertion
The Kannada course separately illustrates negative adjectival participles describing work not done by someone and a book not read by someone. Such a description can identify the noun rather than serve as the main negative assertion of the sentence.
Czech relative clauses are finite in the UD examples. A source phrase about the book that someone did not read can therefore become a target participial description. But it must still identify that book. If the main Czech assertion says the unread book is on the desk, the target should not turn the whole message into a simple report that reading did not occur and omit the book’s location. Track which negative belongs inside the description and which predicate supplies the main information.
A prohibition requires another negative construction
JNU’s lesson also distinguishes negative imperatives from ordinary negatives, using bēḍa and its plural form. Its command example asks someone not to come to a house; it does not merely predict that the person will fail to come.
For an original Czech exchange about returning a borrowed book, the writer might say that the book is not with them, deny that it is their book, or ask the other person not to bring it yet. These statements require different interpretations even though all concern the same item. A Kannada negative that correctly names the book can still miss the request or deny the wrong relationship. Preserve availability, ownership, descriptive nonaction, and prohibition as separate grammatical functions rather than mapping every source ne- onto one target negative form.
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