German to traditional-script Mongolian: whose home is being described?
Separate the owner from the noun’s German ending
In German, the stem of a possessive article points toward its possessor, while the ending agrees with the following noun’s case, number and, in the singular, gender. The IDS contrasts Hans und sein Hund with Eva und ihr Hund. The dog remains the same kind of noun; the possessive stem changes because the person being referred to changes.
For an original German description of a family visit, first determine who lives in the home and who is visiting. A visitor entering somebody else’s home should not become a person returning to their own home simply because a target possessive form looks familiar. The owner’s identity and the visitor’s role are separate parts of the message.
This matters especially after German has introduced several people. If sein could refer to more than one previously mentioned person, replacing it with that person’s name can resolve the source ambiguity. The target cannot reliably recover a distinction that the writer has left unresolved. Do not choose an owner merely because that person appears closest to the possessive expression.
Mongolian can mark a connection to the clause subject
Janhunen describes reflexive possessor marking when the possessor is coreferential with the subject of the clause. His romanized ger-ee/n illustrates one’s home. This notation represents linguistic analysis, including variation; it is not a traditional-script spelling to paste into a message.
Compare two original German intentions: Anna describes her own home, and Anna describes her sister’s home. In both, Anna does the describing. Only the first identifies the described home with that same participant. The Mongolian result must preserve that difference rather than treating every German feminine possessive as an instruction to select the same target construction.
Now change the actor: a friend describes Anna’s home. Ownership has stayed with Anna while the subject has changed. This is a useful way to check a translation: keep the home constant, then ask whether the owner and the person doing the action are still the intended individuals. Subject-linked possession is a grammatical relationship, not an extra assertion that somebody legally owns the building.
Traditional writing does not follow Cyrillic spacing mechanically
The grammar explicitly distinguishes the writing traditions: the reflexive element is attached to the preceding nominal word in Cyrillic Khalkha but appears as a graphic particle in Written Mongol, with additional combinations discussed in the source. A separate-looking element in traditional script is therefore not automatically an unwanted inserted word.
For German to traditional-script Mongolian, do not remove such material simply to make the output resemble the word count of sein Haus or ihr Haus. Conversely, do not assemble a traditional expression by copying Cyrillic segmentation and replacing individual characters. The grammatical connection and its written representation need to be evaluated together.
In a longer account, follow each clause separately: who arrives, who speaks, and whose home is involved? A possessive relationship that is appropriate while Anna is the subject may require a different expression once another participant becomes the subject. Reading the scene participant by participant exposes this change more clearly than matching each German possessive article to one fixed target item.
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