Vortawazhau

(requisite preface that this project is based entirely on my conceptualization of the Vorta and their culture -- we're operating outside of canon here, so feel free to get inventive for your own fannish purposes if this answer doesn't work for your needs).

As the Vorta are a single-sex species and don't have a concept of gender, you would use ha for everyone (or da, if you want to get disrespectful). Universal translators are very good at translating intent and context (otherwise they just wouldn't work), so there's normally no need to use pronouns other than ha, da, and ai -- even when referring to members of species that do have a concept of gender.

That being said, Vorta are also very polite, so if they are referring to an individual they know to feel strongly about using a certain pronoun, they might use that pronoun in the individual's native language, transliterated into Dominionese.

Here's the tricky part - what form of the pronoun they use would depend entirely on how fluently that particular Vorta speaks that particular language. Dominionese pronouns take a possessive form (hau) and a dative form (han), and everything else is just ha, because more meaning is conveyed by syntax in Dominionese than in languages like English. So unless our Vorta speaker just wants to show off their linguistic skills, you would get something like:

You could also transliterate neopronouns in this way such as:

"Xe" is harder, because Dominionese doesn't have a "z" sound like that x makes. In this instance, I'd use "zh" since it's the closest sound available:

I wouldn't transliterate "they" simply because it's already such a close analog of ha -- If you tried to explain an agender person who uses they/them to a Vorta, they'd probably be like, "so....just the usual then?" Binary pronouns would be deeply weird to Vorta.

So now for a couple of example sentences!

"[He] bowed [to her]."

Xe lives on Vulcan.

That's eir bag.

Depending on how serious the relationship is, it could be!

Waiyau might be more appropriate for a very long-term partner, Tenakshata (as noted in the previous post) would be specifically a sexual relationship without necessarily emotional attachment.

Since sex is de-emphasized in Vorta relationships, a relationship can be framed several different ways regardless of whether or not it includes sex. Even zhimata *could* denote a relationship where sex occurs (though it's definitely not assumed).

As for what a Vorta might call their partner in bed, I think there'd be a lot of options depending on the relationship and the the individual! I'll have to put together a list! Keep an eye out -- I'll post here when I have time to put something more extensive together for this.

I would use zhimata in this instance -- in a culture without family ties, there isn't really an exact equivalent, but zhimata has a similarly platonic-affectionate connotation. Zhimata, in most contexts, is more intimate than "friend", so I think it fits as an equivalent. Context matters a lot in this case, since zhimata can be used pretty disingenuously, as well.

I'm not good at drawing animals, so I've created some megafauna nightmare fuel.

Hatchi - a large omnivore native to the region of Kourahamar. They are very good at navigating the heavily-forested mountainous terrain, so were domesticated as pack animals. With improvements in transporter technology, they became largely unnecessary, but are still ridden on occasion.

Zhiya mazhe kin'selam me?

"Is butter a carb?"

This is a great example of when to use the ba-form! Apart from politely expressing imperatives, the ba-form is used to express hopes or wishes. The trick is to figure out what the subject of the sentence is once you remove the "I hope/wish".

So your examples might be constructed:

"I wish to help."

"I wish to be of use to you." (I used "to serve" here)

"I wish you were coming too." (Sen, "you" is the subject here)

"I wish I could see what was in your mind."

"I hope you're right."

"I hope everything went alright."

"I hope they escaped."

"I was hoping you knew."

As far as "little one", you probably wouldn't use "sen", but there are a few options:

I'm not going to have a very satisfying answer to this -- I'm not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination. My only exposure to the IPA was as a voice major in college, which uses a simplified version. Other than that, I've had classes in several languages for varying amounts of time -- basically I have just enough exposure to languages other than English to have a feel for sounds.

So the result is that Dominionese definitely has a specific set of sounds that it uses, but I'll be damned if I could transcribe them in any technically accurate way.

As for <g>, it depends on the speaker! Daimei Vortawa has a very clearly unvoiced <k> sound. That same letter in hadawa sometimes comes out closer to <g>. Same with "tch" being closer to a "j" sound in hadawa (which is why tchem'hadar is rendered "Jem'Hadar").

Since species and planet names are cognates based on whichever language they enter the lexicon from, the word we use for "Ferengi" could be any number of things. For simplicity's sake (and since I'm not sure what the Ferengi word for Ferengi is), let's assume Dominionese picked up FSE "Ferengi" or something reasonably close to it. Daimei vortawa doesn't use the "g" sound (in theory -- in practice it's more complicated, but that's a lesson for another day), so we'd get something like feirenkita.

Or, if you want to be emphatic about it, we can morph that ka into a qa:

Derived from koura "high" and rai, an archaic pre-Dominion word referring to spirits that governed the seasons (modern rai just means "season").

As for the sentence, iirc it was split up, so we would have:

"That's different."

"Because the Founders are (real) gods."

I think hizhai (real, true) is necessary for the meaning to come across, given the lack of a copula in vortawa. If "gods" had been stressed instead of "are", hizhai could be omitted without losing the meaning.

A tangential fun fact -- weiyaita means "person of the source of everything". The "source of everything" is weiyai, which is the word for "space". The original meaning of the word for "Founders" essentially means "space people". I imagine that it was a fairly neutral, scientific word that got tied up with a whole lot of woo at some point. Because weiyaita got much more specific some time before the founding of the Dominion, modern vortawa uses kalanta, "stranger/foreigner" for alien species.

Two options:

Closer to "you're mine", but doesn't carry a particularly dark or possessive context.

"I possess/own you". This is a pretty intense phrase by contrast.

So there are at least two verb possibilities depending on context:

"I will protect/defend/ensure your safety."

"I will take care of/tend to you."

In both examples, the sha/"I" is optional. The first would be more appropriate for a combat-type scenario, and the second implies the subject is injured, sick, or indisposed.

You could add daka to the end of either to imply insistence or emphasis.

If the speaker feels they need permission or consent, they might use the ba-form:

You could probably also use bali instead of basha, but bali is incredibly deferent, so depending on context, it may not work as well.

The hadawa is simpler since hadawa tends to rely much less on subtext, and tends to omit pronouns to a greater extent. Apart from the option of adding the intensifier dak, there is really only one way to phrase each of these sentences: