Danish to Māori: keep subject, object and listener membership distinct
Danish he and she can share one target pronoun
Sproget.dk lists Danish han and hun as subject forms and ham and hende as object forms. A Danish reader therefore receives both person-related reference and grammatical-role information through different personal words.
Kupu Māori uses ia without a male-versus-female distinction in its pronoun explanation. A Māori translation can preserve the intended individual without showing the same gender contrast in the pronoun itself. But the target construction must still preserve whether that individual acts or is affected.
For an original Danish account involving a brother and sister, compare the brother seeing the sister with the sister seeing the brother. A shared gender-neutral target form does not make those reports equivalent. Retain the source references that distinguish the two people rather than assuming a gender distinction absent from the target pronoun will resolve them.
Danish vi does not decide whether the reader belongs to the group
The Danish guidance distinguishes vi as a subject from os as an object form. Changing from one role to the other does not independently establish a new group of people.
Kupu’s first-person group paradigm additionally distinguishes listener membership. Its forms tātou and mātou concern groups of at least three, with the listener included in the former and excluded in the latter. A Danish-to-Māori translation must recover that membership from the source message rather than choose by the subject-versus-object distinction alone.
For an original Danish plan, compare a writer saying that they and two colleagues will meet the reader with a writer proposing that the writer, reader, and a colleague meet together. The reader is an external participant in the first plan and a member of the acting group in the second. Those plans require different target group interpretations even though Danish can use vi in both.
A later reference to os can concern the same established group. Do not switch its membership merely because its grammatical role changes from acting group to affected or receiving group. Preserve the group through the whole exchange.
Capitalized I and a real pair are separate issues
Danish official spelling guidance requires a capital in plural address I. That capitalization distinguishes a Danish personal form from an ordinary preposition; it does not count whether exactly two people are addressed.
Kupu distinguishes kōrua for two addressees from koutou for three or more. A Danish message to a named pair can therefore require a more specific target count than the source pronoun alone displays. A message to a larger team should not become a pair merely because a familiar two-person scene appeared earlier.
For an original Danish invitation, a writer may address two visitors in the first sentence and then include themselves in a joint proposal. The target reference changes from the addressees alone to a group containing the speaker. That change must preserve both count and listener membership.
Read each Danish personal expression through its actual participants and clause role, then interpret the Māori form within its construction. Gender neutrality, real group size, and inclusion of the reader are independent choices; preserving one does not guarantee the others.
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