Danish to Bodo: case can change a pronoun without changing the person
The Danish case distinction is only the starting point
Danish Universal Dependencies distinguishes nominative, accusative, and genitive forms of personal pronouns. A person mentioned as a subject can consequently appear differently when referred to as an object or possessor, without becoming a different individual.
Bridul Basumatary’s study of Bodo personal pronouns describes case-related suffixes and illustrates first-person forms used for an affected participant and a recipient. Its examples include a calling event with a first-person object and a bringing question with a first-person recipient.
For an original Danish exchange, compare somebody calling the writer with somebody bringing something for the writer. The same person occupies different roles. A Bodo suffix change can preserve precisely that distinction; it need not introduce a second writer or another participant into the event.
To me and from me are not interchangeable directions
The Bodo paper separately illustrates a source-related case in a sentence involving bringing a book from another person. It also describes locative and illative marking on personal pronouns following a genitive element in the constructions under discussion.
A Danish message can identify a person as the source of an item, the destination of a movement, or the recipient of a transfer. These are different relationships even when an English paraphrase uses a short preposition in each case. The Bodo result should not be judged by the expectation that every Danish preposition has one separate target word.
For an original Danish handover, distinguish taking a document from a colleague and bringing it to that colleague. Reversing source and recipient changes the instruction. The document’s identity and the colleague’s name can both remain correct while the transfer still runs in the wrong direction.
Likewise, a Danish locational expression involving a person may require more interpretation than simply attaching the suffix associated with movement. The source governing verb establishes whether the sentence describes being somewhere, going somewhere, or transferring something. The Bodo case construction must preserve that particular relationship.
Genitive material does not always mean a new owned object
Basumatary analyses the genitive-plus-locative and genitive-plus-illative sequences as involving a noun that is not overtly expressed. His discussion does not license reading every genitive-looking component as an independent assertion of legal ownership.
For a Danish reader, this matters when the target expression appears to contain more personal morphology than the source pronoun. The added material can belong to a grammatical construction referring to the same person or their associated location. It does not automatically add an item that the writer owns.
An original Danish note can distinguish the writer’s document from a request to come to the writer. The first is possession of an object; the second identifies a destination associated with the writer. Read the target’s complete case sequence and its governing predicate before assigning either meaning.
The useful comparison follows the participant across the exchange while allowing their grammatical role to change. A correct Bodo result retains who calls, who receives, who supplies, and where movement is directed, even when several suffixes contribute to a single personal expression.
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