'Upe lu Mowan

[TireaAean]

From naviteri.org, the blog of Paul Frommer:

Mowan implies physical or sensual pleasure, and often has a sexual connotation:

Plltxe fko san ngaru lu mowan Txilte ulte poru nga. ‘I hear you like Txilte and vice versa.’

Mowan is also used slangily as a general term for ‘like’:

Tìtusaron mowan lu oer nìngay. ‘Hunting really turns me on.’

mowan is an adjective. something/someone IS mowan ((to someone))

Slele is the verb that means swim. It's literally in the dictionary, right under the S section between slär and sleyku. IF you don't see slele in your dictionary, you have a very old version, or you missed it searching. (I recommend using ctrl+F or the search function on the PDF in a browser or PDF viewer or something) The freshest Na'vi dictionary is always here: http://eanaeltu.learnnavi.org/dicts/NaviDictionary.pdf (!!We just got a bunch of new words, so when you get it, make sure to check it in a few days from now as it will have new words in it. go to naviteri.org to see the new words now!!)

nìslele, ma Eana Unil, is the adverb to describe how you got somewhere. It's possible to get to an island offshore nìslele. It's possible to get back to the beach from the island nìslele.

Swimming, the act thereof is actually tìslusele. This is a gerund. use this to say "I like swimming" "Swimming is hard" "swimming is good for your health"

slerele also means "swimming". But this form is the imperfective aspect of the present tense of swim. Therefore, "Oe slerele" means "I am swimming". in the present, you are not done swimming as you say that.

slusele also means "swimming". But this one acts more like an adjective (although it's called the active participle) This is used only attributively to say "THE swimming [NOUN] (([VERB]s))" For example, "I just killed a swimming fish with a spear!" would be "Oel tspìmang sluselea payoangit fa tukru!"

So recap:

Mowan means whatever Paul said it means above.

English has only one way to say [VERB]ing. Na'vi is specific and has three.
1. the gerund (the act [VERB]ing)
2. the active participle (used as an attributive adjective) (The [VERB]ing [NOUN])
3. the imperfective present ([NOUN] IS [VERB]ing]

Hope this helped.