Prepositions and suffix

Started by Neytiria, December 26, 2009, 02:41:09 AM

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Neytiria

Someone explain prepositions for me :D
The PDF only confuses me.
Teˊlanӓ le-Naˊvi

omumyu

Prepositions explain the context of the action.  I went to the store.  He stands on the box.

Plumps

And as the term already implies in most languages these little neat words come before (pre- = in front) the word they explain. That's the reason why Frommer calls them adpositions in Na'vi, because they can stand before or after the word (at least, that's how I understood it).

omängum fra'uti

The farewall wish of "Eywa ngahu" is a good example of adpositions actually.

Eywa you-with is the literal translation.  But -hu is just an adposition.  It could equally be "Eywa hu nga" and still mean the same thing.
Ftxey lu nga tokx ftxey lu nga tirea? Lu oe tìkeftxo.
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Plumps