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Ataeghane

What is this sentence in Na'vi?

I don't know where to go.
Ke omum oel tsenget a oe kivä tsane. (?)
Ke smon oer tseng a oe kivä tsane. (?)


Do you have any suggestions? Any other ways of saying it?

And what about this two:

I don't know how to cook a worm.

I don't know what to do.

Oer wivìntxu ngal oey keyeyt krr a tse'a sat. Frakrr.

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Oel ke omum fyape/peyfa 'em ngawngit.

This is what I would say, don't know whether it's right or wrong.

Plumps

Quote from: Ataeghane on December 16, 2010, 01:51:57 PM
I don't know where to go.
Ke omum oel tsenget a oe kivä tsane. (?)
Ke smon oer tseng a oe kivä tsane. (?)

The first one, I think.

Quote from: Ataeghane on December 16, 2010, 01:51:57 PMI don't know how to cook a worm.

I don't know what to do.

I circumscribe it via fya'o and fì'u.
Ke omum oel fya'ot a 'em ngawngit

Ke omum oel futa a kem si.


Other suggestions are welcome. There is this, still strange example from Karyu Pawl's blog with fyape that he hasn't come around to explain fully, yet.

Ataeghane

QuoteKe omum oel fya'ot a 'em ngawngit
Shouldn't we use 'ivem? I see this like that:

Ke omum oel fya'ot a 'em ngawngit.
I don't know how I cook worm.

Ke omum oel fya'ot a 'ivem ngawngit.
I don't know how to cook worm.


QuoteKe omum oel futa a kem si.
Again, it looks like I don't know that I do, not: I don't know what to do. Is, then, oel ke omum kemit a sivi correct?
BTW, is futa a correct?

Oer wivìntxu ngal oey keyeyt krr a tse'a sat. Frakrr.

Plumps

Quote from: Ataeghane on December 16, 2010, 02:19:58 PM[...]
QuoteKe omum oel futa a kem si.
Again, it looks like I don't know that I do, not: I don't know what to do. Is, then, oel ke omum kemit a sivi correct?
BTW, is futa a correct?

Don't know about the first one...

*kemit a sivi doesn't seem right to me. There was only one instance where si could be placed on its own.

No to *futa a ;) futa = fì'u-t-a so you would have a double relative pronoun

You could go for another construction altogether. How about "Concerning the cooking of worms, I can't to it." Tì'emìri ayngawngä oe ke tsun tsakem sivi.

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Quote from: Ataeghane on December 16, 2010, 01:51:57 PM
What is this sentence in Na'vi?

I don't know where to go.
Ke omum oel tsenget a oe kivä tsane. (?)
Ke smon oer tseng a oe kivä tsane. (?)


Do you have any suggestions? Any other ways of saying it?


How about simply:

Ke omum oel futa pesenge  oe kivä

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Quote from: Plumps on December 16, 2010, 02:29:21 PM
Quote from: Ataeghane on December 16, 2010, 02:19:58 PM[...]
QuoteKe omum oel futa a kem si.
Again, it looks like I don't know that I do, not: I don't know what to do. Is, then, oel ke omum kemit a sivi correct?
BTW, is futa a correct?

Don't know about the first one...

*kemit a sivi doesn't seem right to me. There was only one instance where si could be placed on its own.

No to *futa a ;) futa = fì'u-t-a so you would have a double relative pronoun

You could go for another construction altogether. How about "Concerning the cooking of worms, I can't to it." Tì'emìri ayngawngä oe ke tsun tsakem sivi.

Si can be placed on it's own any time the context makes it clear what the missing word would be.  I think that kem a si constructions would qualify there.

Oel omum kemit a sivi
I know what I would do
Ftxey lu nga tokx ftxey lu nga tirea? Lu oe tìkeftxo.
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Ataeghane

QuoteHow about simply:

Ke omum oel futa pesenge  oe kivä
Even if, you should insert ne in there. But still, ke omum oel tsenget a oe kivä tsane seems to me to be more logical than ke omum oel futa pesengene oe kivä.

QuoteOel omum kemit a sivi
I know what I would do
Look like I know what to do and I like it.

Oer wivìntxu ngal oey keyeyt krr a tse'a sat. Frakrr.