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TireaAean 08-16-2014 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182778)
Srane!

Tìkangkem si lu 'änsyem.
"work is completed"
"I am off work"

:D Txantsan!

The verb work is tìkangkem si, the noun work is just tìkangkem :)

Wind12 08-17-2014 12:13 PM

Furia oe tìkangkem sayi txonkrr, set Oe zene hivahaw.

"For this that is I worked overnight, Soon I must sleep."

TireaAean 08-17-2014 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182786)
Furia oe tìkangkem sayi txonkrr, set Oe zene hivahaw.

"For this that is I worked overnight, Soon I must sleep."

Hivahaw nìmwey.
"Sleep calmly/well"

Nice work on that sentence!

Though what you wrote is grammatically perfect, It would be better to use alunta in the middle than furia at the beginning. alunta really puts that feel of because/for/since. Furia just introduces a topic about which you have a comment to make.

Oe tìkangkem sayi txonkrr alunta set oe zene hivahaw.
Because I will work at night, I must sleep now.

Also, your English was in past tense. Did you intend for the Na'vi to be in past? You wrote the Na'vi in future tense. <am> = distant past, <ol> = action complete, <ay> = future

Wind12 08-18-2014 02:26 PM

Irayo, Srane I messed up, hrh.

Set, Oel omum fì'ut :)

Wind12 08-18-2014 02:51 PM

Krra oel tsame'a kelutralit, Oe san, "Tsa'uru lu apxa!"
When I saw Hometree, I said, "That thing is huge!"

Wind12 08-18-2014 03:03 PM

Ngal zene niväk, taluna yafkeyk lu txasom.
"You must drink, because the weather is very hot."

TireaAean 08-18-2014 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182795)
Krra oel tsame'a kelutralit, Oe san, "Tsa'uru lu apxa!"
When I saw Hometree, I said, "That thing is huge!"

Krra oel tsame'a kelutralit, oe plltxe san tsa'u lu apxa sìk

san and sìk are already just spoken quotation marks. You still need a verb with those, it's almost always plltxe (this word also means say)

You seem to use this structure a lot:

*{Something}ru lu {adjective}

When you describe something with lu like this, no markings are needed:

{Something} lu {adjective}.

For example:
Tsa'u lu apxa
That thing is huge

A different structure you may be confusing this with is To have:

{Something}ru lu {something}

For example:
Oeru lu ikran
A banshee is to me
"I have a Banshee."

:)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182796)
Ngal zene niväk, taluna yafkeyk lu txasom.
"You must drink, because the weather is very hot."

Perfect! Just one tiny thing: Nga zene, not Ngal zene.

--

Ewll Eywa'evengä oeyä eltur tìtxen si.
"Pandoran plants are interesting to me."

Wind12 08-19-2014 03:09 PM

Irayo nìmun! Srane. I keep getting tripped up on transitive verbs like "drink" that don't have a subject I.e. Ngal zene niväk payt, and Nga zene niväk. tsa lu eyawr. srak? :) :)

TireaAean 08-19-2014 03:42 PM

Ngal näk payt
Nga zene niväk payt

Zene is not transitive which is a main reason why its subject is not marked.

New, even though it is transitive, copies zene and tsun by not marking its subject.

Oe new niväk payt.
Oe tsun niväk payt.

An exception to the subject not being marked is this word order:

Oel payti zene niväk.

Where it copies off Oel ngati kameie, and its like zene niväk is being treated as a single verb or something.

Wind12 08-20-2014 02:45 PM

Oe tsun hena apxa tskxet.
Oel apxa tskxet tsun hena.
"I can carry large rock."
"I can carry boulder."

Wind12 08-20-2014 02:51 PM

Neytiri plltxe, san krr lu taron sìk.
"Neytiri said, "Time to hunt".

Wind12 08-20-2014 03:11 PM

Tsaram alusìng lu pxay ayikran, Nari si!
"That floating mountain has many Ikran, be careful!"

Wind12 08-20-2014 03:19 PM

Oeyä ikranru sunu payoang.
"My ikran likes fish."

TireaAean 08-20-2014 04:47 PM

Tewti! Lots of posts! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182813)
Oe tsun hena apxa tskxet.
Oel apxa tskxet tsun hena.
"I can carry large rock."
"I can carry boulder."

tsun hivena*. ( Lesson Eight: iv - Tirea Aean )

Tewti! Ro'a nìtxan nang!
Wow! That's very impressive!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182814)
Neytiri plltxe, san krr lu taron sìk.
"Neytiri said, "Time to hunt".

Here, you have krr doing two verbs, lu and taron. That doesn't really make sense so you may have to reword this.

zene set tivaron.
Must hunt now

taron set ko.
Let's hunt now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182815)
Tsaram alusìng lu pxay ayikran, Nari si!
"That floating mountain has many Ikran, be careful!"

Tsaramur lu* (see previous post about have; Lesson Three: Have, Plurals, and Sound Changes - Tirea Aean )

Nìkeftxo ke lu oeru kea ikran.
Sadly, I have no ikran.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wind12 (Post 182816)
Oeyä ikranru sunu payoang.
"My ikran likes fish."

Txantsan! :D

Wind12 08-21-2014 03:51 AM

So "That floating mountain" would be...
Tsaramur lu alusìng?
:nsmile:


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