lumpe zene ayunil ftängang?

[Rim tsamsiyu]

is the above question correct?

trying to say
"why must dreams stop(end)?"


and yeah was kinda talking about the post-avatar depression

[omängum fra'uti]

With modals like "must" you put the following verb in the subjunctive....  Not sure if you could still inflect it for mood or not, but don't see why not.  Other than that it looks fine.  (I forget the subjunctive there all the time, myuself.)

Lumpe zene ayunil ftivängang.

[Rim tsamsiyu]

cheers i'll go look it up in the grammar section =)

[Rim tsamsiyu]

kk so i checked the grammar section and i'm still not really clear why it's necessary for me to add -iv- into the word?
what does my statement mean without it then?

[wm.annis]

kk so i checked the grammar section and i'm still not really clear why it's necessary for me to add -iv- into the word?
what does my statement mean without it then?

It's ungrammatical.

What languages have you studied?

Modal verbs are verbs that introduce other verbs, and are used to indicate things like obligation, ability and desire.  "I speak Na'vi" is a simple statement, but we can instead say things like "I must speak Na'vi, I want to speak Na'vi, I can speak Na'vi" and so on.  These words — must, can, want — are a little bit all over the place in English.  Some take one form of the verb, some take another.  In many languages, these modals take the infinitive.  Even English uses its infinitive with "want", "I want to speak Na'vi."

In Na'vi, all these modals require the verb they introduce to use the ‹iv› infix.  That's just a rule.

Oe plltxe nìNa'vi I speak Na'vi
Oe new pivlltxe nìNa'vi I want to speak Na'vi
Oe zene pivlltxe nìNa'vi I must speak Na'vi
Oe tsun pivlltxe nìNa'vi I am able to speak Na'vi

Now, the ‹iv› infix has other uses, too, so don't think of it as an infinitive.  But for now, this should get you started.