Dogri to Lower Sorbian: a relationship word can change position and spacing
Dogri postpositions do not establish one target word order
Sawhney’s Dogri morphology paper describes postpositions following an oblique expression. Its examples include uppər for above and kənnɛ for with. These relationship words help explain how a person or thing connects to the event; they are not simply free words that can be translated independently of the expression accompanying them.
Lower Sorbian has its own placement requirements. The Sorbian Institute’s official orthography guidance describes dla as normally written separately from its reference word even when it follows that word. Examples include mje dla and tebje dla. A target relationship expression can therefore contain a following element without being a copied Dogri postpositional construction.
When translating a Dogri phrase, establish its actual meaning before selecting the Lower Sorbian adposition. The existence of a following dla pattern does not make dla the translation of every Dogri postposition. Above, accompaniment and other relationships remain different meanings even if their source phrases share a similar arrangement.
Changing the pronoun can require changing the target arrangement
The same official Lower Sorbian guidance says that dla precedes a listed set of pronouns, including the forms represented in dla sebje and dla kogo. It excludes putting dla after those pronouns in the specified pattern. A translator cannot infer that every target pronoun will permit the order seen with mje or tebje.
Dogri’s oblique-pronoun paradigm similarly provides forms that differ from nominative references. For example, Sawhney lists singular miɡi and plural əssẽ separately from the corresponding first-person nominative forms. The translation must interpret the source form’s grammatical role rather than substitute whichever pronoun appears first in a dictionary entry.
This comparison matters when a message shifts from an identified person to a question about a person. The new expression may change the target construction even though the broader relationship remains under discussion. Keeping an old word order merely because it worked with a different pronoun can produce an unsuitable Lower Sorbian phrase.
Treat the source case form and the target placement rule as separate pieces of evidence. One helps establish what the Dogri expression does; the other determines how the chosen Lower Sorbian expression is formed. Neither can be replaced by a general rule of putting the relationship word after everything.
Separate words and conventional combined forms need different treatment
The Sorbian Institute also lists combined spellings such as mójogodla and twójogodla. Its rule distinguishes these specified combinations from the separately written examples. Spacing is therefore part of the documented construction, not an optional visual choice applied after the translation is complete.
A Dogri phrase may distribute its relationship across an inflected word and a following postposition. That source division does not determine how many written words the Lower Sorbian expression should contain. Conversely, a combined target spelling does not prove that part of the source relationship has disappeared.
For this direction, preserve the participants and the relationship first, then apply the target expression’s particular placement and spelling. The examples demonstrate why a translation can change order or word boundaries without changing the intended reference. They also show why one successful noun or pronoun phrase should not be recycled as a universal pattern for every later relationship expression.
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