Welsh to Simplified Chinese: coming and going need the same reference point
A Welsh future form already identifies a motion verb
The Welsh Foundation guide distinguishes Af i, I will go, from Dof i, I will come. Both are concise future constructions, but their lexical motion meanings differ. Translating them through one undifferentiated movement verb loses information before the destination is even considered.
Chinese Universal Dependencies describes directional compounds combining an action with directional and deictic motion elements. Its account distinguishes 来, movement towards the deictic centre, from 去, movement away from it. Simplified Chinese output should therefore retain the reference point relevant to the Welsh message, not merely mention the correct place.
For an original Welsh arrangement, compare promising to come to the listener’s office with reporting a plan to go elsewhere. The same person can perform both journeys, but the messages orient them differently. Determine whose location supplies the reference point before deciding that a target coming-related or going-related construction is appropriate.
The route and the viewpoint contribute separate information
The Chinese account distinguishes direction elements such as entering, exiting, and returning from the coming-versus-going contrast. These can combine: a return and movement towards a reference point contribute different information within one expression.
The Welsh source can likewise specify both a motion verb and a location phrase. Canolfan Peniarth illustrates yn meaning in with a definite place, including nasal mutation in ym Mangor. That location construction does not itself mean moving into the place. A Chinese translation should not turn a Welsh statement about being in Bangor into an entry event merely because a destination was mentioned earlier.
For an original Welsh travel exchange, distinguish being inside a building, entering it towards the listener, and returning to it after leaving. The first describes a location, the second a boundary-crossing event, and the third a return relationship. Preserving the building’s identity does not compensate for changing which of those relationships the sentence asserts.
A directional-looking component is not always a physical journey
The Chinese documentation also describes idiomatic compounds whose directional component no longer carries literal spatial meaning. Its example 想起 concerns remembering rather than moving a thought upwards.
This prevents another error for Welsh readers: not every 来, 去, or rising-related element needs an added motion clause in the source. Interpret the complete Chinese predicate instead of translating each component back into a physical instruction.
An original Welsh note may combine remembering an appointment with a promise to come later. Those are separate events. The target can use a compound for remembering and a deictically appropriate motion expression for the journey without asserting that both involve movement.
The source’s concise future, lexical verb, and location phrase jointly establish the intended event. In the Simplified Chinese result, read the whole compound and its reference point together. Matching a single familiar place name or directional character cannot establish that the Welsh coming, going, location, or memory relationship survived.
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