Persian to Malagasy: the person doing the action can appear at the end
A final pronoun is not necessarily an afterthought
Persian Online describes a usual verb-final pattern and illustrates man diruz be sinamā raftam, reporting that I went to the cinema yesterday. The participant appears before the time and destination, while the verb comes last. Malagasy examples in the Peace Corps introduction organize an ordinary affirmative clause differently.
Mihinana vary aho expresses my eating rice: action first, rice next, speaker last. Misotro rano ianao similarly places the addressee after the drinking action and water. These attested Malagasy examples demonstrate a pattern, not translations of the Persian cinema sentence. A final pronoun in this pattern still identifies the actor rather than a person receiving the food or drink.
For a Persian speaker reading the target, that distinction prevents a practical misunderstanding. A sentence about my eating should not be understood as somebody feeding me simply because the reference to me occurs after the food. The role comes from the complete construction, not from the assumption that the source’s first participant must remain the target’s first word.
Persian can express the participant inside the verb
The Persian sentence-structure lesson also explains that mi ravam can identify the speaker without an explicit man. The personal ending supplies information that an isolated search for a subject pronoun would miss. A translation into a Malagasy construction with an overt final subject must still represent that speaker even when no separate Persian word meaning I is present.
Conversely, a target final subject should not be deleted solely because Persian commonly allows that omission. Source omission and target expression can preserve the same participant. The relevant question is whether the sentence still identifies who goes, eats or drinks, rather than whether both versions contain the same number of separate words.
Descriptions can keep a subject without a separate copula
The Malagasy introduction gives Mangatsiaka izy for somebody being cold, with a descriptive predicate followed by the person. Persian Online illustrates attached forms of the verb to be, including خوبم for the speaker being fine. Thus a Persian word can combine a description with first-person copular information, while the illustrated Malagasy pattern places its subject separately.
A description of the speaker’s condition must not become a description of somebody else when that information is redistributed. The visible absence of a separate Persian subject does not authorize dropping the participant from the meaning; the absence of a separate Malagasy be verb does not turn its descriptive predicate into a command.
Across these examples, Persian and Malagasy distribute action, description and participant information differently. Read the Persian personal ending together with its predicate, then interpret the target subject within the documented Malagasy pattern. This preserves the person involved while allowing a natural change from a Persian final verb to a Malagasy final subject.
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