"Any ..."

['Oma Tirea]

TSe, this seems to be missing from Na'vi....

Here's some comparitive examples: frapo, kawtu, tuteo, ???

Basically, we have "fra-" for every-, "ke"/"kaw-" for no/no-, "-o" for some-, but what modification is "any"?

Is this known in Na'vi yet, or am I missing something here yet again?

[Carborundum]

Maybe there isn't one. Swedish doesn't have a word for "any", but instead just uses "some" where ever one would use "any" in English.

[wm.annis]

Many languages do not distinguish "anybody" and "somebody."  That said, we don't know the full details of this.  But, note this early sentence from Frommer,

  Ke fparmìl oel futa lu tute a tsun nì-Na'vi set fìfya pivlltxe!
  I didn't think that there was anyone who could speak Na'vi like this!

['Oma Tirea]

Many languages do not distinguish "anybody" and "somebody."  That said, we don't know the full details of this.  But, note this early sentence from Frommer,

  Ke fparmìl oel futa lu tute a tsun nì-Na'vi set fìfya pivlltxe!
  I didn't think that there was anyone who could speak Na'vi like this!

Interesting... the indefinite -o isn't even used.  Maybe just an article is presumed there...

[wm.annis]

Interesting... the indefinite -o isn't even used.  Maybe just an article is presumed there...

That was my basic thought when I first saw it.

[kewnya txamew'itan]

That quote is very old though, it's possible that karyu pawl hadn't come up with -o then.

Anyway, I don't see a huge need for one, for now I've been using fra- or -o depending on which seems best at the time.

[omängum fra'uti]

In that quote, I think -o would make it sound odd.  The literal translation to me comes off as "I did not know there was a person who could speak Na'vi so well" - but saying it like that in English sounds odd, but it feels more natural in Na'vi.  But that is just my gut reaction.

[Kì'eyawn]

In that quote, I think -o would make it sound odd.  The literal translation to me comes off as "I did not know there was a person who could speak Na'vi so well" - but saying it like that in English sounds odd, but it feels more natural in Na'vi.  But that is just my gut reaction.

That's a good point, ma Tsm. Omängum.  We have to remember that some structures that sound weird in English are "natural" in Na'vi.  The big one for me has been noticing that places where English would use a progressive verb (e.g., "What are you doing?") Na'vi would just use a regular present tense (Kempe si nga?).