Word Football Game

[Alyara Arati]

Zerok: keng ngeyä tìreyä 'e'ala zìsìtur lu kivosìng hapxì nì'aw.

remember: even your worst life's year has only 60 parts.

I think 'e'al should be moved to the other side of zìsìtur because genitive (tìreyä) must be next to its possession.

Mllte oe: ngeyä tìreyä zìsìtur a'e'al... is better.

Txo fìwopx lew si kifkeyur, tsaw ke sngä'i kivìm nìwä.

if clouds cover the world, it doesn't start to spin on the contrary.

I think he may mean that the earth doesn't start to spin backwards.

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

well nìwä means "on the contrary, contrarily" like a connector of contrast as far as I understand.

[Alyara Arati]

well nìwä means "on the contrary, contrarily" like a connector of contrast as far as I understand.

It could be that, too.  Blue Elf did say that there was one important word missing from his quotes...

[Blue Elf]

Zerok: keng ngeyä tìreyä 'e'ala zìsìtur lu kivosìng hapxì nì'aw.

remember: even your worst life's year has only 60 parts.
I think 'e'al should be moved to the other side of zìsìtur because genitive (tìreyä) must be next to its possession.

Now I see that sentence is completely wrong, as I tried it to write without dictionary..... Original was: Remember that even the worst hour in your life has only 60 minutes. However I mixed hour to year, what is nonsense - this can not be said in Na'vi as we don't have word for hour. Oe lu änsyema skxawng

Txo fìwopx lew si kifkeyur, tsaw ke sngä'i kivìm nìwä.

if clouds cover the world, it doesn't start to spin on the contrary.

When world is covered by clouds, it doesn't start to rotate in opposite direction.

[Sireayä mokri]

I think nìwä will do fine here.

Meanwhile kivosìng needs attributive marker (numerals work the same way as adjectives): kivosìnga hapxì.

[Alyara Arati]

timely only...very simple Hamlet

Hahaw, kxawm lu fkoru ayunil...

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

Zerok: keng ngeyä tìreyä 'e'ala zìsìtur lu kivosìng hapxì nì'aw.

remember: even your worst life's year has only 60 parts.
I think 'e'al should be moved to the other side of zìsìtur because genitive (tìreyä) must be next to its possession.

Now I see that sentence is completely wrong, as I tried it to write without dictionary..... Original was: Remember that even the worst hour in your life has only 60 minutes. However I mixed hour to year, what is nonsense - this can not be said in Na'vi as we don't have word for hour. Oe lu änsyema skxawng

I'd say hour as kivozamevola swaw (3600 moments). even though a second and a moment are not the same I think it's fine.

[Plumps]

Zerok: keng ngeyä tìreyä 'e'ala zìsìtur lu kivosìng hapxì nì'aw.

remember: even your worst life's year has only 60 parts.

I think 'e'al should be moved to the other side of zìsìtur because genitive (tìreyä) must be next to its possession.

I wouldn't say so. Otherwise we wouldn't have forms like oeyä tsawla kelku

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

so what you're saying is that noun+adj could be seen as a whole big noun. eltur tìtxen si.

[Plumps]

Hm, yes, I'm not sure whether this is the term but yeah ... that's what I mean.

There are a few other instances where one could make that inquiry:
ma oeyä eylan
...

I remember that I wasn't sure at one point about the construct mì oeyä kelku and raised the question whether it could also be (among the usual suspects of mì helku oeyä, oeyä kelkumì and kelkumì oeyä) *oeyä mì helku. Clearly, we know now that this is wrong, but from my (mis)understanding back then, there was no sure way of knowing (for me) why there should be allowed a possessive pronoun between (what I thought) the 'big noun' mì helku (which I thought not to be separated)...

awnga nume tengkrr rerey

[Blue Elf]

I'd say hour as kivozamevola swaw (3600 moments). even though a second and a moment are not the same I think it's fine.

Well, it is possibility, but I don't like it. In similar way we can say hour as pxevopxì trrä, but these "numeric" words are not comfortable for me (I don't saying they're wrong) and I expect also hard-to-understand to native Na'vi. I've seen (and tried on myself), that even some complicated thoughts can be translated into Na'vi, but not everything is possible.
Let's try something easier, I have big bank of quotes.

Hahaw, kxawm lu fkoru ayunil...

Sleep, maybe one (will) have dreams....

[Puvomun]

Hahaw, kxawm lu fkoru ayunil...

Sleep, maybe one (will) have dreams....

Hahaw, kxawm lìyu fkoru ayunil... perhaps? To bring out the nearby future tense (will)?

Or even:

Hahaw, kxawm lìyevu fkoru ayunil... (Sleep, perhaps one may have dreams)?

Ulte plltxe ayunil, oe hìyevahaw

[Alyara Arati]

That was the closest I could come without any way to indicate infinitives, to saying:  "To sleep, perchance to dream..."

[Puvomun]

That was the closest I could come without any way to indicate infinitives, to saying:  "To sleep, perchance to dream..."

Ah, I see. That's a nice one.

[Plumps]

Koren a'awve fwa nume lì'fyati:
rä'ä ralpiveng aylì'uti ki ralti

[Alyara Arati]

Koren a'awve fwa nume lì'fyati:
rä'ä ralpiveng aylì'uti ki ralti

How should I have done it better?   Txo oe hivahaw, peunil livu oeru?   That sounds more like "...what dreams may come?"

['Oma Tirea]

"To sleep, perchance to dream..."

Fwa hahaw, kxawm fwa unil si...

[Blue Elf]

Today's quote by Eleanor Roosevelt:

Zusawkrr suteru lu a spaw tìlorit sì tìtxurit peyä ayunilä

[Sireayä mokri]

I think genitive is missing on ayunil.

[Blue Elf]

I'm afraid you are right corrected