"Na'vi nì'aw" lu muiä srak?

[Toruk Taronyu]

Oe ke omum txo "nì'aw" lu muiä.  "Nì'aw" lu *adverb* ulte ke lu ayoeru *verb.*
Ke lu "___ only" aylì'a a plltxe nìIglisì ulte ke plltxe nìNa'vi srak?

Spoiler

I don't know if "nìaw" (in the title) is correct.  "Nì'aw" is an adverb and we don't have a verb.
Isn't "___ only a phrase spoken in English, and not in Na'vi?

[Keylstxatsmen]

Oe ke omum txo "nì'aw" lu muiä.  "Nì'aw" lu *adverb* ulte ke lu ayoeru *verb.*
Ke lu "___ only" aylì'a a plltxe nìIglisì ulte ke plltxe nìNa'vi srak?

Oel fpíl futa faylí'u *muiä lu. Fko san "fítsengmí lu" sík ke kin pivlltxe ní'aw.

le'Ínglísía *lí'olori, spoyílamí kxaní lu kop.  Fíkíngit tíng nari, rutxe: http://forum.learnnavi.org/navi-niaw/(read-first!!!)-horen-plltxe-tsenga-lenavi-eltu-si-fte-nga-tsun-sngai-nilstan/

-Keyl

[Toruk Taronyu]

Oe ngaru si irayo, oe si tsap'alute, ulte oe pawm txoa.  Tsole'a oel aypot perlltxe tsafya.  Tslam stum oel ngayä aylì'at.

Oe si nìmun irayo!

[Prrton]

Oe ke omum txo "nì'aw" lu muiä.  "Nì'aw" lu *adverb* ulte ke lu ayoeru *verb.*
Ke lu "___ only" aylì'a a plltxe nìIglisì ulte ke plltxe nìNa'vi srak?

Spoiler

I don't know if "nìaw" (in the title) is correct.  "Nì'aw" is an adverb and we don't have a verb.
Isn't "___ only a phrase spoken in English, and not in Na'vi?

Ma Toruk Taronyu,

Oel sìlpereiey futa fì'it.ral.renu teri.aylì'u nì.nì a txeleri tsun teri.tìfpìl oeyä ngaru piveng nìlaw. Ke lu txele a lu ftue nìhawng. Ral a kllkxem mìkamtseng tsa'itlì'ä san« nì- »sìk ke alìm ta ral nìÌnglìsì san« as »sìk lu ulte ha ke lu nìteng san« -ly »sìk ni'aw nìwotx. NìNa'vi san« nì- »sìkur lu sìtsun sì tìtxur nì'ul Ìnglìsìto. Nìnatìkenong rutxe tìng nari ne san« nì.awn.omum » (a zene kivä ta san« nì.awnga.omum »sìk). NìÌnglìsì ke tsun pivlltxe nìeyawr san« we know-ly »sìk ko srak? Slä nìNa'vi fì'u lu eyawr nìwotx. Ke lu kxeyey.

Tsun tslivam srak? Txo vay set ngaru leru sìpawm, ha rutxe peng oer fte tsun ngar 'iyeveyng.

[Kiliyä]

nì.nì

Pefya syamaw po?

[Prrton]

nì.nì

Pefya syamaw po?

NìNa'vi kxawn zene livu aw'u a ke alìm nìhawng ftu san« lì'u fu *'itlì'olo a fkol lolatem fa tsa'itlì' nì fte slivu lì'u nìnì »sìk, ko srak?

Spoiler: nì*TiEmAy*

In Na'vi perhaps it ought to be something not too unlike "a word or phrase that one has changed via the particle nì to become a word 'in nì'", right?

I don't think there is anything exactly like the power or behavior of the Na'vi nì in English. "quasi-adverbial prefix"?

  - nìNa'vi (as the Na'vi do)
  - nìÌnglìsì (English-language-ish-ly/as English (is))
  - nìayoeng (like us)
  - nì'awve (firstly, to start with)
  - nìawnomum ((nì.awnga.omum) as we know)
  - lì'u lu *nìnì (a word configured with "nì-" [a word existing as nì-ish] e.g.: "nìNa'vi" or "nìlaw" ("clearly"))
  - *'itlì'olo lu *nìnì (a phrase prefixed with "nì-" [a phrase existing nì-ish-ly]e.g. "nìawnomum")

Remember that the verb lu is not exactly the same as "is" in English. It means "be/is; there is/are; to exist (in reality without reference to a place/space); to have" so nì-words can interact with it and other verbs more broadly than some of the other Na'vi parts of speech.

  Lu aylì'u apxay nìlì'fya leNa'vi a ke lu tengfya aylì'fya nìÌnglìsì.

  There are many words in the Na'vi way-of-words that are not the-same-as words as-in-English.

  Oeru ke lu lawa fya-o a tsun fpxiväkìm nìna'rìng

      OR

  Oeru ke lu fya-o a tsun fpxiväkìm nìna'rìng nìlaw

  I don't have a clear way that I can enter the forest.
  There is no clear way for me to enter the forest.

The oeru ke lu part doesn't change. There are just different ways to say it in English.

I'm not 100% sure about all this, of course, but 'things in nì-' tend to more broadly set the tone for the whole sentence (or dependent clause), but not always. We will see if K. Pawl will actually support this use of phrases like nìnì (in nì-), nìmì (in mì (for words prefixed or suffixed with mì) etc.) Time (and usage) will tell. Perhaps lì'u anì or lì'u lenì would be better. It depends on how semantically similar nì might be to a nouns or adverbs. For now, it can be stuck onto about anything. I believe I saw somewhere that he took this from Farsi, but I don't remember where. Oeru txo livu.

'Upx.ìm: Tsalì'u san« muiä »sìk a leru nì'em fko zene livatem fte slivu san« eyawr »sìk ko srak?

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