Transitive Case

[Stxeli te Txayo Unilyuan]

Hi all! I'm new to both this forum and the Na'vi language. Something I'm a bit confused about is the grammar for "oel ngati kameie." Wikipedia tells me that the object of a transitive verb takes the accusative case, which is -t for nouns ending in vowels, and -ìt for nouns ending in consonants. If this is correct, wouldn't "oel ngat kameie" be grammatically correct? I know nga is a pronoun, but I can't find anything about cases for pronouns.

[Toliman]

Kaltxì ulte zola'u nìprrte'

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Hello and welcome

Oel ngat kameie or Oel ngati kameie - both is right

Actually for accusative - if the word ends in a vowel, it takes -ti or just -t (you can select one arbitrarily). And if the word ends in consonants, it takes -it or -ti.

[Stxeli te Txayo Unilyuan]

Thank you! This solves my issues with cases, which are surprisingly intuitive. Now all I've got to study in the way of grammar is tenses and verb infixes!

[Toliman]

Kea tìkin

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You're welcome

[Blue Elf]

Hi all! I'm new to both this forum and the Na'vi language. Something I'm a bit confused about is the grammar for "oel ngati kameie." Wikipedia tells me that the object of a transitive verb takes the accusative case, which is -t for nouns ending in vowels, and -ìt for nouns ending in consonants. If this is correct, wouldn't "oel ngat kameie" be grammatically correct? I know nga is a pronoun, but I can't find anything about cases for pronouns.

Case endings are applied to both nouns and pronouns - in that instances, when pronoun acts as a noun. When pronoun is used in role of adjective, it can't take case ending.