Dogri to Hungarian: object agreement is not the same agreement system
A Hungarian verb can distinguish an identified object
Dogri perfect examples in Sawhney’s description show agreement associated with a feminine food or book noun. Hungarian also has an object-related conjugation distinction, but it does not reproduce Dogri gender agreement. Keresztes illustrates látok egy fiút for seeing a boy and látom a fiút for seeing the boy. The verb paradigm changes with the object’s grammatical definiteness, not with a masculine-versus-feminine value on the Dogri noun.
When translating a Dogri statement about reading a book, identify whether the speaker means an already established book or introduces one without identifying it. Selecting a Hungarian conjugation from the source noun’s gender would answer the wrong question. Conversely, an agreement change in Hungarian need not imply that the book changed gender or that a different person began reading.
A personal object is not handled merely as known information
The Hungarian paper distinguishes first- and second-person object pronouns from third-person ones in its conjugation discussion. The former occur with the general paradigm in the relevant examples, while third-person pronominal objects trigger the objective paradigm. The description also identifies the special -lak/-lek form for a first-person singular subject and a second-person object. Thus known person is not a sufficient shortcut for choosing the target conjugation.
An original Dogri exchange contrasting seeing me, seeing you and seeing that person contains objects that may all be perfectly identifiable. The Hungarian forms nevertheless need to follow the grammatical person pattern. Dogri case and agreement information must first be interpreted as participant roles; it cannot be copied as a single undifferentiated object-agreement ending. Preserve who perceives whom before selecting the Hungarian paradigm.
An unspoken object still needs a recoverable reference
Keresztes examines Hungarian object omission and reports differences among person and number combinations, including variation in acceptability. The existence of a definite conjugation is therefore not proof that every object pronoun can safely disappear. A Dogri source that explicitly distinguishes two possible affected people should not lose that distinction merely to produce a shorter Hungarian sentence.
For a Dogri conversation in which one speaker asks about a book and another answers that they have read it, an omitted target object may be recoverable from the immediate exchange. In a longer passage mentioning several books and people, the same abbreviation can be less clear. Do not assume that a Hungarian verb encodes the object’s entire identity, gender and number in the way a reader might expect from the source. The target construction supplies particular grammatical information; the remaining reference must still be established by its phrase and discourse. This keeps the translation concise where appropriate without erasing the specific object that the Dogri message identifies.
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