Na'vi practice thread

[Plumps]

Nitram lu palulukan a ngäng ateya nìhawng taluna yerom sawtute a lu ayskxawng

And it even rhymes

[Kamean]

Nitram lu palulukan a ngäng ateya nìhawng taluna yerom sawtute a lu ayskxawng

Tewti! Siltsana lì'fyavi. Sunu oer nìtxan.

[Sngäiyu]

It's a directional adposition meaning to, towards. Used in expressions like ne narìng oe kerä — I am going to the forest.

aah i understand... so "i'm going home after school" would mean "oel kä ne kelku maw numtseng" in Na'vi or am i wrong? 

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

just drop the subjective case on oe. there's no direct object here so it's not needed.

[Sireayä mokri]

just drop the subjective case on oe. there's no direct object here so it's not needed.

It's "agentive case"

Kä can't have any objects because it's intransitive. Also to keep in mind: ne can be dropped if it's used right after the verb.

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

It's "agentive case"

I've seen people use the term "subjective". I think it's correct (at least grammatically).

Also to keep in mind: ne can be dropped if it's used right after the verb.

really? never seen that rule before. it's very interesting.

[Sireayä mokri]

I've seen people use the term "subjective". I think it's correct (at least grammatically).

Subjective (some use word "nominative") is a different case that is not marked in Na'vi and appears in sentences like oe kä, nga hahaw etc.

[Kamean]

Also to keep in mind: ne can be dropped if it's used right after the verb.

really? never seen that rule before. it's very interesting.

I memorize it too.

[Plumps]

Also to keep in mind: ne can be dropped if it's used right after the verb.

really? never seen that rule before. it's very interesting.

I memorize it too.

An early blog post ... under 2

[Tswusayona Tsamsiyu]

irayo ma 'eylan.

[Kamean]

Irayo ma tsmuk.

[Sngäiyu]

just drop the subjective case on oe. there's no direct object here so it's not needed.

It's "agentive case"

Kä can't have any objects because it's intransitive. Also to keep in mind: ne can be dropped if it's used right after the verb.

yes a sentence like "oel kä kelkuti" would sond pretty strange...
but if "ne" isn't used right after a verb it can be dropped, or am i wrong?

[Sireayä mokri]

but if "ne" isn't used right after a verb it can be dropped, or am i wrong?

It can't. Oe kä ne kelku=Oe kä kelku=Ne kelku oe kä, but not *kelku oe kä or *kä oe kelku.

[Kamean]

It can't. Oe kä ne kelku=Oe kä kelku=Ne kelku oe kä, but not *kelku oe kä.

It even sounds like a strange way, at least for me.

[Sireayä mokri]

It even sounds like a strange way, at least for me.

Strange doesn't mean bad as long as it's correct

[Kamean]

But it's been wrong.

I mean, that strangeness would cause the alert - and whether it is right?

[Sireayä mokri]

But it's been wrong.

Indeed.

I mean, that strangeness would cause the alert - and whether it is right?

One should not forget that sometimes even most ordinary things can turn out to be incorrect.

[Kamean]

One should not forget that sometimes even most ordinary things can turn out to be incorrect.

Mllte ngahu.

[Ataeghane]

Aren't ordinary things ordinary because we know for sure they are correct?

[Kamean]

Sometimes the mistake is not noticed for a long time and it seems just about right because of its ordinariness.