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Wind12 09-15-2013 07:46 AM

Kaltxì :)

TireaAean 09-15-2013 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 180266)
Oeyä eltu ke lu txur.

ke always comes right before the verb. ;) It's just one of those non-Englishy things that makes Na'vi unique.

Ke tsranten. Oe tìngäzìkluke tsun tslivam. Ngari hu tskxekeng eltu txur slayeiu. :)

EDIT: Kaltxì!

Wind12 09-15-2013 08:06 AM

Well I go so e of it but not all :/

No problem. My trouble can be war. As for you with training strong brain??.

Wind12 09-15-2013 08:33 AM

The middle sentence "I difficult cant be war" is the closest I can get.

TireaAean 09-16-2013 12:27 AM

Hover your mouse over the blue text. (both in this post, and the post I did earlier.)
It's the [ navi= "english goes here" ] na'vi stuff goes here [ /navi ] tag. :)

also, tslam and tsam are ever so slightly different. ;)

Wind12 09-16-2013 05:03 AM

Okay :), " I can understand the difficulty"

I have a tablet so I'm not sure about the cursor over the words thing. :(

TireaAean 09-16-2013 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 180277)
Okay :), " I can understand the difficulty"

I have a tablet so I'm not sure about the cursor over the words thing. :(

O! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Hmm... If only there were [spoiler][/spoiler] or [desc][/desc] on this forum... Anyways here's what I said:

Quote:

Originally Posted by TireaAean (Post 180268)
Ke tsranten. Oe tìngäzìkluke tsun tslivam. Ngari hu tskxekeng eltu txur slayeiu. :)

"It doesn't matter (Not important). I can understand without difficulty. Your brain will become strong with practice."

Wind12 09-16-2013 07:11 AM

Irayo :)

Oel kerä ne Eywa k'sey nivi'bri'sta

"I'm going to bed" ?

TireaAean 09-16-2013 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 180279)
Irayo :)

Oel kerä ne Eywa k'sey nivi'bri'sta

"I'm going to bed" ?

Oe kerä ne snomo (~~I'm going to my room)

Words from the Non-Frommer Appendix in the dictionary are pretty much uncool. Mostly because they are impossible to pronounce, and have stuff in them that should not be possible given the alphabet and rules for building words.

And if you are from the US, "I'm going to bed" would actually mean "I'm going to sleep" or "I'm about to sleep."

Oe hìyahaw.


Txon lefpom :)

Moco Loco 09-16-2013 04:02 PM

The only phrase I know :S

TireaAean 09-17-2013 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Moco Loco (Post 180282)
The only phrase I know :S

Here are some other good ones:

Kaltxì (hi)
Rewon lefpom (Good morning)
Oel ngati kame (I See you)
Kame ngat (I See you, short form, informal(?), common response to long form)
Lu ngaru fpom srak? (Are you well? / Do you have well-being?)
Srane (yes)
Kehe (no)
Oe ke tslam (I don't understand)
Ngaru tìyawr (you're right)
Ngaru tìkxey (You're wrong)
Oe mllte (I agree)
Oe ke mllte (I don't agree / I disagree)
Irayo (Thanks)
Nìprrte' (You're welcome / Pleasurably)
Kea tìkin (You're welcome / short form of No need to thank)
Kiyevame (goodbye)
Hayalovay (until next time)
Tsakrrvay (until then)
Eywa ngahu (short form of May Eywa be with you)

Tried to pick ones that are conversational and/or might be useful around the boards here. :D :na'vi:

Wind12 09-19-2013 04:18 AM

Oe tsap'alute sängi Oeyä kxeyeyri.

TireaAean 09-19-2013 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 180309)
Oeyä kxeyeyri Oe tsap'alute sängi.

The word with -ri comes first in the clause ;) Kea tìkin a tsap'alute si ma tsmuk. :) Frawzo. Frapo tìkxey si, frapo nume.

Wind12 09-30-2013 06:50 AM

Six day work weeks cutting into my Na'vi time :/.
okay,
Oel yerom teyluti fìtxon.

Wind12 09-30-2013 07:00 AM

and now for the life of me I can't remember why I put "sängi" for si in my last sentence :(

TireaAean 09-30-2013 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 180408)
Six day work weeks cutting into my Na'vi time :/.
okay,
Oel yerom teyluti fìtxon.

:) Txantsan! tsari sur fkan lor srak?

:) Awesome! Does it taste good?

Quote:

and now for the life of me I can't remember why I put "sängi" for si in my last sentence :(
Where?

EDIT: OH. tsap'alute sängi is pretty common. the <äng> is negative mood of the person who's speaking. (it's the opposite of <ei>)

Wind12 11-03-2013 06:59 AM

Kaltxì nìmun!
Just wanted to say that I haven't forgot about my Na'vi learning, just my work hours have been longer and it has been tough, may focus on Memerise for awhile to build vocab, just curious, I know that it may be different for different people, but in your opinion should I focus on building my vocab. then go into the Grammer rules or should I try to finish the 15 lessons first? sorry if this is a skxawng question. As always Irayo for the support :) :) :)

TireaAean 11-03-2013 03:10 PM

Understandable.

Not a skxawng question at all! I'd say both are equally as important. I'd say learn some vocab then learn a couple rules and make sure you're comfy with what you've learned so far then learn more. Then again everyone's different so I'm not really sure if there's a best order. I liked to do both, bit by bit when I was learning. And there are a lot more words than rules so you're going to get to the point where I am: knowing all the rules but still learning vocab, especially new vocab as it comes out.

:)

Moco Loco 11-04-2013 11:37 AM

Neato, thanks for that list :D I do look at my flash cards occasionally, but not anywhere near often enough.

Wind12 11-20-2013 03:45 PM

It's me again :) :)
still working on Memersize when I get the chance, did make my first mem for a Na'vi word...(yes it is weather related, :lol:)
http://i1280.photobucket.com/albums/...pse70c4b3c.jpg

TireaAean 11-20-2013 10:06 PM

Nice! I don't totally get the connection myself, but if this helps you remember that äo means "under/below", then awesome :D

Wind12 11-21-2013 06:56 AM

In meteorology the arctic oscillation is often just referred to as the "AO" and when the index goes negative it means cold air can come south better, so it can help the temp drop "below" 0F for populated areas in the mid latitudes, ÄO=below (0) :)

Moco Loco 11-21-2013 09:27 AM

That's a pretty complicated way of remembering one thing, but go on :P

Wind12 12-24-2013 10:39 PM

My apologies for being gone for so long, just wanted to stop by to say lefpom Christmas ma 'eylan :) :) :) :)


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