Persian to Galician: súa can agree with the object while leaving the owner unclear
The owner in Persian u is singular but not gender-specific
Persian māl-e u can mean his or hers in the Texas possessive lesson. The independent pronoun identifies a third-person singular possessor without choosing male or female reference. Galician translation must preserve what the source establishes while avoiding an invented assumption about that person’s gender merely because a target possessive has a gendered form.
For example, an exchange about a house may already establish its owner through a name in the preceding sentence. That reference should guide the translation. If the Persian sentence alone supplies only u, assigning a male or female owner from the house’s grammatical gender would manufacture information that the pronoun did not contain.
Galician possessive agreement concerns the possessed noun
The Xunta de Galicia teaching resource states that a possessive agrees in gender and number with the noun representing the possessed item, rather than with the possessor. Its paradigm includes seu, súa, seus and súas. A feminine possessive form can therefore describe a feminine noun without establishing that the owner is a woman.
The same distinction applies to quantity. Plural possessive agreement can accompany several belongings of one person; it need not announce several owners. Persian provides a useful control here because māl-e u still identifies a singular person even when the things under discussion are plural. Do not let target noun agreement change the source’s possessor count.
This matters in an inventory attributed to one person. Different Galician noun genders can require different possessive forms across that person’s items. Those alternations organize the target noun phrases; they are not evidence that ownership has passed between male and female people from one line to the next.
The target may need an explicit owner expression
The Xunta resource also warns that Galician third-person possessives can be ambiguous between singular and plural possessors and other respectful references. It gives o seu libro and a clarifying alternative o libro dela. Choosing an explicit owner expression can therefore resolve an ambiguity that the broad possessive form would otherwise leave open.
For a Persian sentence whose u clearly refers to one previously identified person, a Galician form allowing several possible owners may be insufficient in a comparison involving two families. Repeating a known name or using an appropriate explicit reference preserves the established owner. Such clarification should use information already supplied in the exchange rather than guess who owns the object.
The central separation is between the form of the Galician possessed-noun phrase and the identity of the Persian possessor. A feminine or plural target ending can be grammatically required without adding gender or plurality to u. Once those jobs are kept distinct, an explicit owner expression can clarify the reference while the rest of the noun phrase follows ordinary Galician agreement.
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