Na'vi names

[Lehrrap Uniltìranyu]

And Learning Na'vi isn't too hard once you get to know your grammar and vocab well.

You seem to know it pretty well. Just out of curiosity, did my reply come out ok? I'm still learning some of the basics, but so far it seems pretty easy to just pick up and run with.

[Tìsyaw Nantangä]

Voice like a warrior, yes. (:

Mokri Nìtsamsiyu should be it. You could flip the names around if you wanted like I just did.

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

[Tengfya swizaw]

Irayo! I don't consider myself that good, but then again...
Your reply was pretty good as far as I can tell. For basic sentences like that there's really not too much to worry about other than vocab, and you did well on improvising with some of the statements. I could be wrong, but it looks great.

[Lehrrap Uniltìranyu]

Right. 'í'awn alaksí, tsmukan. Ban Ikran tswayon fí'u taw.

[Tengfya swizaw]

nìwotx krr.

[moonseeker]

Voice like a warrior, yes. (:

Mokri Nìtsamsiyu should be it. You could flip the names around if you wanted like I just did.

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

Irayo! (: Irayo for taking the time to do this (:

[The old Uriuujìn]

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

I hate to point this out, but you missed a letter: Txon-yä it should be, instead of Txonä

Otherwise, excellent work, tsmuktu!

Eywa ayngahu!

-Uriuujìn

[wm.annis]

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

I hate to point this out, but you missed a letter: Txon-yä it should be, instead of Txonä

No, it shouldn't.  It seems that the genitive ending is -ä after words that end in a consonant.  See the Weaving Song from the Activist Field Guide.  It contains the phrase trrä sì txonä of day and of night.  We know txonä is sure.

[Tìsyaw Nantangä]

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

I hate to point this out, but you missed a letter: Txon-yä it should be, instead of Txonä

No, it shouldn't.  It seems that the genitive ending is -ä after words that end in a consonant.  See the Weaving Song from the Activist Field Guide.  It contains the phrase trrä sì txonä of day and of night.  We know txonä is sure.

Yeah I read that post of yours, handy to know. Question though, sort of regarding genitives and names and syntax... I've just changed my name from

Nantang-ä Tì-syaw to Tì-syaw Nantang-ä

which I hope is equivalent to changing from Viperwolf's Call to Call of the Viperwolf in a halfassed attempt to give the "call" part more emphasis since I want my nickname to be close to "Woof". My question is, does the possessor have to precede the possessed thing in Na'vi like with the English 's or is it open to reversal in Na'vi? I can't seem to find anything that says that they're bound together [possessor]-[possessed] like in English, but a lifetime of native English speaking has me geared to believe that they are.

[wm.annis]

My question is, does the possessor have to precede the possessed thing in Na'vi like with the English 's or is it open to reversal in Na'vi? I can't seem to find anything that says that they're bound together [possessor]-[possessed] like in English, but a lifetime of native English speaking has me geared to believe that they are.

Here's what Frommer says in his Language Log post: "Additionally, adjectives, genitives, and relative clauses can either precede or follow their heads."  So, either possessor-possessed or possessed-possessor is fine.

[Tìsyaw Nantangä]

Txan ayirayo fìpi fì'u! _{*hopes I didn't mess that up*}

[swok hawnu ma Eywa]

Txan ayirayo fìpi fì'u! _{*hopes I didn't mess that up*}

Sìltsan!

[Brainiac]

My question is, does the possessor have to precede the possessed thing in Na'vi like with the English 's or is it open to reversal in Na'vi? I can't seem to find anything that says that they're bound together [possessor]-[possessed] like in English, but a lifetime of native English speaking has me geared to believe that they are.

Here's what Frommer says in his Language Log post: "Additionally, adjectives, genitives, and relative clauses can either precede or follow their heads."  So, either possessor-possessed or possessed-possessor is fine.

Thanks, I was wondering about that.

[Tsleng Atutan]

Hey, fresh meat here. Tell me what you think of my name, and let me know if there's ant problems with it.

[The old Uriuujìn]

Night Star seems fine, if you want to be more specific you could have, say, Letahnì Txon (starry night) or umm Txonä Tahnì (night's star). My Na'vi is a bit broken so I may have missed an affix somewhere, I'm not good on adjectives.

I hate to point this out, but you missed a letter: Txon-yä it should be, instead of Txonä

No, it shouldn't.  It seems that the genitive ending is -ä after words that end in a consonant.  See the Weaving Song from the Activist Field Guide.  It contains the phrase trrä sì txonä of day and of night.  We know txonä is sure.

We were having a debate like this in another thread... http://forum.learnnavi.org/index.php?topic=193.msg3960#msg3960 You were the one that started that thread, I believe.

My opinion stands: words in songs are a less reliable gauge of grammar, because we ghange words in them to fit into rhythms, rhymes, and syllable count.

-Uriuujìn

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

Sorry if I am interrupting the flow of the conversation but I have a question about my name. Ari is just a pen name I use for just about everything but my real name is Kristi which means "follower of Christ" (horribly ironic name...)

So I was wondering what something like follower of Eywa would be. I couldn't find the word for follow, so maybe something like learner of...

I know nume means learn. How would I change it to learner?

Also Tireafya'o means spirit path, which is close, but how would I make it sound more like a name and less like something I pulled straight from the dictionary?

[Kiki]

My name, Kristina, also means "follower of Christ" or "Christian". Kiki is just a nickname, so it doesn't really have a meaning. So I'm just going with my middle name, Kathleen, which means "pure".

I don't think I found "pure" in the dictionary, so I thought some synonyms would work. Something like:

true: ngay
spirit: tirea

or

no: kehe
evil: tikawng

[Tìng Eywatikìte'e]

Hmm perhaps with the word service kìte'e. Server of Eywa, Servant of Eywa would probably be a more direct translation of anyone with a name that follows under Kristi, Christian, Kristina, ect.

Anyone have a clue how to change kìte'e to "server?" I'm still very new to the grammar system.

[Robert Nantangä Tirea]

My name, Kristina, also means "follower of Christ" or "Christian". Kiki is just a nickname, so it doesn't really have a meaning. So I'm just going with my middle name, Kathleen, which means "pure".

I don't think I found "pure" in the dictionary, so I thought some synonyms would work. Something like:

true: ngay
spirit: tirea

or

no: kehe
evil: tikawng

Eywayä Numeyu is "Eywa's Learner" but more in the sense that you are a learner who belongs to Eywa. I think you're looking for Numeyu ta Eywa. (special thanks to member Steven Lang for help on this). Since you're using it as a name you can be free to mess with it a little to fit your needs or saying prefrences, re-arranging or deleting letters as you need. Maybe something like Numeyuta Eywa maybe? up to you. good luck!

[Robert Nantangä Tirea]

Hmm perhaps with the word service kìte'e. Server of Eywa, Servant of Eywa would probably be a more direct translation of anyone with a name that follows under Kristi, Christian, Kristina, ect.

Anyone have a clue how to change kìte'e to "server?" I'm still very new to the grammar system.

Very good suggestion!

I haven't checked the vocab list but I am assuming kite'e is a verb, thus you could add "-yu" to the end to make it the person who serves.

kite'eyu = server (servant?)