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Spam / Re: Make a Wish, Make it Usele...
Last post by archaic - Today at 06:18:32 PMThe grass is poisonous.
I wish for a universal antitoxin.
I wish for a universal antitoxin.
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Pictures of your Cat / Re: Pictures you like
Last post by Toliman - Today at 05:09:08 PMYeah, it is.
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Pictures of your Cat / Re: Pictures you like
Last post by Vawmataw - Today at 04:56:53 PMseems like someone deleted the vast majority of the sky
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Beginners / Re: [For Beginners] FAQ (Pleas...
Last post by Torr te Moa Ekxtuaitan - Today at 04:36:54 PMIRAYO! Yeah that's kinda what I was going for was figuring out what she said and the grammar of it. 
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Français (French) / Re: Que s'est il passé le 16 d...
Last post by JNewen91 - Today at 03:53:32 PMUn résumer en Vidéo concernant ce Forum (car la flemme d'écrire XD)
bon visionnage ou d'écoute
bon visionnage ou d'écoute
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Beginners / Re: [For Beginners] FAQ (Pleas...
Last post by Tirea Aean - Today at 02:15:32 PM"I was going to kill them/it" reminds me a lot of a line from the first film said by Neytiri to Eytukan about Jake. What was done there in that line (*tspìmìyang) has been stricken from the canon. What we have now is something like this:
Oe kìman tspivang pot
I (recently)-intended to-kill them
(or any word order of this, such that kìman comes before tspivang in the sentence, with or without words in between)
or maybe
Oe karman tspivang pot
I was-intending to-kill them
(same deal with the flexible word order, karman needs somehow to come before tspivang)
in this situation,
- kan is a modal verb which means something like to intend to, aim to, have an objective or intention to
- <ìm> infix is a recent past tense. you could use <am> if you wanna talk about further back in time. "was going to" is handled by this kìman or karman or similar form of kan
- <arm> infix as Tìtstewan said has this sort of similar to "was <verb>ing" vibe. ongoing action in the past.
- tspivang (from tspang) is the kill part. it has <iv> infix inside because a modal verb such as kan was used.
- po is 3rd person singular animate gender-neutral. like singular they in English, it works on any person or pet animal etc. it has the -t ending because it's the thing to be killed (as opposed to the killer)
- tsat is a 3rd person singular inanimate. it technically means "that", but it functions a lot like "it" in many situations. it has a -t ending baked in so here it would also function as what's to be killed
Oe kìman tspivang pot
I (recently)-intended to-kill them
(or any word order of this, such that kìman comes before tspivang in the sentence, with or without words in between)
or maybe
Oe karman tspivang pot
I was-intending to-kill them
(same deal with the flexible word order, karman needs somehow to come before tspivang)
in this situation,
- kan is a modal verb which means something like to intend to, aim to, have an objective or intention to
- <ìm> infix is a recent past tense. you could use <am> if you wanna talk about further back in time. "was going to" is handled by this kìman or karman or similar form of kan
- <arm> infix as Tìtstewan said has this sort of similar to "was <verb>ing" vibe. ongoing action in the past.
- tspivang (from tspang) is the kill part. it has <iv> infix inside because a modal verb such as kan was used.
- po is 3rd person singular animate gender-neutral. like singular they in English, it works on any person or pet animal etc. it has the -t ending because it's the thing to be killed (as opposed to the killer)
- tsat is a 3rd person singular inanimate. it technically means "that", but it functions a lot like "it" in many situations. it has a -t ending baked in so here it would also function as what's to be killed
