Sentence check for dialog

[Hawnuyu atxen]

It must be a typo.. blue is "ean", so it should be "eana". (you can gear Frommer saying it in the "big blue butt" sentence)

[Na'viyä Tsamsiyu]

Yeah, i hope.

[ShadowedSin]

If anyone is wondering I'm using as a thread to learn the basic grammar for an RP site I help to co-admin.

Oeri ontu teya längu ngeyä ta fahew!


I am using SVO for the sentence structure because most of the board I'm on are English Speakers.

So I take it that my secondary sentence is dative?

Ngal ke perenga oeru kea tìngayt! < I see you added a double negation? So the verb is negated and the noun is negated?

So if peng is a vt, why is just marked as verb in Taronyu's dic?

[ShadowedSin]

So in sentence negation for Na'vi you negate a verb and then you negate the corresponding object?

[omängum fra'uti]

So I take it that my secondary sentence is dative?

Ngal ke perenga oeru kea tìngayt! < I see you added a double negation? So the verb is negated and the noun is negated?

So if peng is a vt, why is just marked as verb in Taronyu's dic?

Truth is all the parts of speech we know are inferred.  Frommer stated that for most verbs it's clear enough what the transitivity is so he doesn't bother mentioning it in his vocab (Which we don't have yet).  "Tell" is actually ditransitive, like "give"  You tell something to someone.  The to someone is of course the dative, leaving the person telling and the thing being told as the ergative and accusitive respectively.

And yes, Frommer seems to always negate both the verb and the object of an action.  We don't know if it is required but every case of negation he has written, that I know of, he has done the double negation.

[ShadowedSin]

Ah thanks for the explanation I'm still learning the grammar and I suffice to say that it's going to take a bit to remember all of this.