[For Beginners] FAQ

[Swoka Tsamsiyu]

Kaltxì ma HelloBye,

There's several ways to say to look :

Nìn = to look at
Nari si = watch out, be careful
Kame = is spiritual way of looking, not so much as looking at a person as looking INTO him/her.
<Oel ngati kame> I See you. I see who you are, what kind of person you are, how your spiritual being is... In kame one can add the mood infix <ei> to express that one is happy/ pleased about it. <äng> would mean to total opposite and would be considered to be an insult of sorts.

And there's probably a couple of "seeing" verbs I missed

[archaic]

I posted this in spam .....

2D5A50F^5F5E100
Hexadecimal numbers people!

2.65322417x8^{34327724461500000}
Proper numbers people! 



EDIT .....
4.7555855x10^{1000000000000000}
Nifaketuwong ayholpxay tawtute!

My question is:-
"Nifaketuwong ayholpxay tawtute" looks dubious to me, is it correct?
If not, what would be?

[Tìtstewan]

I never saw this word: Nifaketuwong. Ketuwong I know, but what you want to say with nifa or with tis word?

[archaic]

[numbers] like the ketuwong use (decimal).

[Tìtstewan]

Ayholpay nìtengfya pxel hetuwong.
Numbers as the same way like aliens.

...but I'm not sure if is my way correct or I thought right...

[archaic]

Thanks, I'll pencil that in.
http://forum.learnnavi.org/spam/can-we-get-to-5000-posts/22305/

[Mr. HelloBye]

How do you say' I have fruit'?

[Tirea Aean]

How do you say' I have fruit'?

lu oeru <we are missing the word for fruit. still. >

We really need the word for fruit. We have a submission in the LEP called txusi which if passed would become the Na'vi word for fruit.

[Mr. HelloBye]

Could you elaborate some? Like word order, is It a phrase? Example sentence? Etc.

[eejmensenikbenhet]

The usual way of saying you own something is as follows:
... lu oer(u) (literally: to me is ... / I have ...)
... lu ngar(u) (literally: to you is ... / you have ...)
... lu por(u) (literally: to him/her is ... / he/she has ...)
et cetera

On the dots you can place any noun without having to modify it. Compare this to:
Ngaru lu fpom srak? To you is wellbeing?
Oeru lu fpom. I have wellbeing.

If you don't understand where the -r(u) forms above come from, open up the spoiler.

Spoiler: -r(u) forms

The -(u)r forms above are the 'Dative' forms of the pronouns singular.
oe I - oe-r(u) to me
nga you - nga-r(u) to you
po he/she - po-r(u) to him/her
The same goes for the pronouns in plural.

The word order is relatively free, as usual. Be careful though when creating longer phrases, in that case just keep the three (subject, lu, pronoun) close together.

[Mr. HelloBye]

How do you describe something as large? the adjective is 'apxa', and I need to add -a- to it... how? (for examples sake, lets say large hammerhead ('angtsìk))

[Tirea Aean]

apxa 'angtsìk.
'angtsìk apxa.
The -a- merges.

[Mr. HelloBye]

How would you say something like 'Do you speak Na'vi?'

[Vawmataw]

How would you say something like 'Do you speak Na'vi?'

Plltxe nga nìNa'vi srak?

[Kamean]

Nga nìNa'vi pivängkxo srak?

[Mr. HelloBye]

How do you say 'I can't do that'? Is it 'Oe tsunke tsakem' or 'Kem si tsunke oe tsakem' or what?

[Kemaweyan]

Oe ke tsun tsakem sivi.

[Mr. HelloBye]

Why can't you say tsunke?

[Eana Unil]

The (one) word tsunke doesn't exist, other than the word "zenke", which was build/contracted from zene + ke (ke zene (don't have to) and zenke (mustn't) have different meanings!).
Instead you have to say ke tsun (ke always has to stand before the verb it relates to).

[Blue Elf]

How do you say' I have fruit'?

lu oeru <we are missing the word for fruit. still. >

We really need the word for fruit. We have a submission in the LEP called txusi which if passed would become the Na'vi word for fruit.

Sometimes we use fkxen -although it is vegetable. Maybe you can try fkxen akalin (sweet vegetable). No nitpicking please

Nga nìNa'vi pivängkxo srak?

Why <iv> there? No reason to put it in.