Czech to Kazakh: numeral function, case and gender follow different grammatical systems
A suffix attached to a numeral can express grammar rather than a different number
Kazakh can attach grammatical morphology to a written numeral with a hyphen. A Czech source number may therefore appear in the target with extra letters while retaining its numerical value. Those letters should not be treated as part of the quantity or removed merely to make the target resemble the source.
The Kazakh UD documentation gives 100-ге as an example of a number with an attached morphological suffix. It separately documents case on numerals and other nominal categories. The written numeral and the grammatical role of its phrase are distinct pieces of information.
Czech also changes numeral expressions according to grammatical role. The Academy handbook contrasts pět mužů with pěti mužům: the same five people occur in different case constructions. Translating a quantity involves preserving the count and rebuilding its role, rather than copying whichever source ending happens to follow the number.
Czech ordinal punctuation must be interpreted before target suffixation
The Czech Academy explains that a full stop after a digit can mark an ordinal, as in a third anniversary. It also documents postnominal identifiers where a number can be read cardinally or ordinally without that full stop. A dot is therefore not just expendable formatting.
This matters when the Kazakh translation contains letters attached to digits. The source may identify an object’s rank, a label or a quantity, and the target may additionally express its case relation. Keeping a digit unchanged is insufficient if its function changes from third in a sequence to three objects.
For a Czech instruction referring to a numbered item and the people receiving it, determine which number labels the item and which counts the people. Target suffixes must express the intended grammatical relationships without merging those two numerical functions.
Source gender agreement does not require a matching Kazakh gender category
The Kazakh UD overview states that Kazakh has no grammatical gender, although it assigns male or female metadata to some personal names for annotation purposes. That annotation practice should not be mistaken for a grammatical gender paradigm on target nouns or verbs.
CzechEncy’s agreement account shows gender distinctions in Czech participles and adjectives, including first-person forms that differ according to the speaker. Such source morphology can provide information about a participant, but it does not require adding an equivalent Kazakh gender ending where the target grammar has none.
A Czech quantified description can consequently lose some visible agreement distinctions while retaining its meaning in Kazakh. Preserve the actual people, count and event instead of manufacturing gender morphology. The target may add case morphology to a numeral while omitting a source gender contrast: these opposite changes are compatible because the two languages distribute grammatical information differently. The cited UD page supports specific documented contrasts and is not an exhaustive grammar of every Kazakh numerical construction.
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