Lesson 4 - Lenition, Or "Softening Words".

[Wind12]

Okay , " I can understand the difficulty"

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

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

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:

Originally Posted by TireaAean

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]

Irayo

Oel kerä ne Eywa k'sey nivi'bri'sta

"I'm going to bed" ?

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

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]

The only phrase I know

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

The only phrase I know

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.

[Wind12]

Oe tsap'alute sängi Oeyä kxeyeyri.

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

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]

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

[Wind12]

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

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

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?

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]

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]

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]

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

[Wind12]

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