Let's make some sentences!

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

Question, do Na'vi have words for direction? like, north, south ect.?

We are unsure if the Na'vi have this concept. The cardinal directions are based on magnetic poles. And before that it was the sunrise and sunset and the visible stars at night. Pandora is in a binary solar system and we don't know much about the astronomy with respect to Pandora. We also don't know the traditional cultural perspective of these directions. Relative directions like left right and straight are all we have. We feel it's up to Cameron to tell us the Na'vi concept of cardinal directions. Good question tho.

[Na'vi a Kepekmì]

Originally Posted by TireaAean

Ahhh... the Na'vi Tag. I was just about to ask you to provide translation. I've been using that RoyalBlue color on my posts here and providing original intended meanings below, as standard form. I like this because I can actually see it all from my email. I can't see inside navi tags or desc tags or any of those on email. Meh. Anyways...

Your sentence says this: "I need this thing which is to run because a mountain will ascend I ((error: both I and mountain are trying to be subjects here)) with people from my school until two weeks."

Your meaning was: "I need to run because I will ascend a mountain with people from my school in two weeks" Which would be like this:

Oe zene tivul taluna ramìri fäkayä oe sutehu a ta numtseng oeyä kay mehintrr.

ALso, fäkä is a compound head-final verb (fä-kä;'top-go'), which means that the actual verb part of this word is kä, so all infixes go inside the kä part: fäkayä instead of fayäkä.

And "I need <to verb>" is equal to and probably best expressed as "I must <verb>". Not to say that oel kin futa [verb] is wrong, but it's much easier and common to use oe zene [v<iv>erb].

Interesting! Thanks.
As for the word ''vay'', how stupid I was!

[Moco Loco]

vay?

[Na'vi a Kepekmì]

I used vay instead of kay.

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Na'vi a Kepekmì

I used vay instead of kay.

Originally Posted by Moco Loco

vay?

Yeah, vay is a Na'vi word which means "until"; kay is the opposite of "ago".

[Wind12]

Irayo nìtxan tìoeyktìngri!!
"Thank you very much for the explanation."

Tsa'u eltur tìtxen si!
"That thing is interesting"

[Wind12]

Yafkeyk lu lepwopx sì wur fìtrr.

Apxa tompa tok fìtseng messram.

"Weather is cloudy and cool today."

"A big rain here two days ago."

[Wind12]

Furia Oeru lu ohakx, Oe terìng narì teylur.
"For I am hungry, I'm looking for teylu."

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

Irayo nìtxan tìoeyktìngri!!
"Thank you very much for the explanation."

Nìprrte'!

Tìoeyktìngìri irayo nìtxan.

The thing with -ri should always come first in the clause.
"Topic-ri comment."

Tsa'u eltur tìtxen si!
"That thing is interesting"

Originally Posted by Wind12

Yafkeyk lu lepwopx sì wur fìtrr.
"Weather is cloudy and cool today."

Fìtseng nìteng; sunu oeru.
Here too; I like.

Apxa tompa tok fìtseng messram.
"A big rain here two days ago."

remember tok requires the -l and -t endings:
Apxa tompal tok fìtsengit mesrram.

A more typical way to say this would probably be:

tompa 'eko fìtseng mesrram
Rain attacked here two days ago.

Tompa 'eko
"Rain attacks"

is the typical way to say raining cats and dogs or rain super hard. Txantompa is like a rainstorm. I guess pretty similar, but each one might be easier to use in certain sentence structures. Because:

Maw txantompa, pxaya rìkäo lamu tskalep peyä.
After the rainstorm, his crossbow was under many leaves.

Would be a little shorter/easier to say than this:

Maw fwa tompa 'eko, pxaya rìkäo lamu tskalep peyä.
After the rain attacked, his crossbow was under many leaves.

Originally Posted by Wind12

Furia Oeru lu ohakx, Oe terìng narì teylur.
"For I am hungry, I'm looking for teylu."

Furia and the like don't mean "for" as in "because"; they mean it in the sense of introducing something as a theme or context of the sentence.

Here in this sentence, you are telling the reason why you are looking for teylu. So you're really saying "Because I am hungry, I am looking for teylu." So Taluna or alunta looks like a good choice. (alunta this time because of the word order you're using.)

Oe 'efu ohakx alunta oel fwew teyluti
Because I feel hungry, I seek teylu.

Usually with emotions and feelings, even hunger and thirst, it's more typical to use 'efu than lu.

fwew means to seek/look for; tìng nari meens to look at.



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Oe txen slu hawngkrr fìtrr.
I woke up late today.

[Wind12]

Irayo nìtxan nìmun!! tsa'u lu txantsan!! "tompa 'eko"

[Wind12]

Kawkrr srekrr set tìwew fìrewon fìtseng. (37F)
"Never before now coldness this morning here, (37F)"
"record cold this morning here, (37F)."

[Wind12]

Taw lu piak fìtrr, ya lu tsyafe kop!

The sky is clear today, the air was comfortable too.

Oe tsäpe'a mì maweya pay.

I see myself in calm water( reflection).

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

Taw lu piak fìtrr, ya lu tsyafe kop!

The sky is clear today, the air was comfortable too.

Oe tsäpe'a mì maweya pay.

I see myself in calm water( reflection).

Kosman! Oeru sunu frato fìfneyafkeyk.
Wonderful! I like this type of weather most.

[Wind12]

Oel tìsraw seykami oeyä venut krrka tul trrpxeyve.
"I hurt my foot during run on Tuesday."

[TireaAean]

Originally Posted by Wind12

Oel tìsraw seykami oeyä venut krrka tul trrpxeyve.
"I hurt my foot during run on Tuesday."

tìsraw si is only used to say Something hurts. Otherwise, you cause something to hurt. Also, -l and -t can never be used with a ___ si verb except if it has <eyk> in it for this reason.

Oeri venu tìsraw si.
My foot hurts.

Oel tìsraw seyki oeyä venut.
I caused my foot to hurt; I hurt my foot.

krrka - during; it only makes sense to say during an event. run is a literal action. You can say "while running on Tuesday", or "during the Tuesday when I ran" or something like that:

..tengkrr tarmul trrpxeyvemì
..while running on Tuesday

..krrka trrpxeyve a tolul oe.
..during the tuesday I ran.

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Keftxo!
~That sucks!

Eywal zeykivo ngat nìwin.
‘May Eywa heal you quickly.’