Is that grammarically correct?

Started by Ihmn, September 09, 2016, 09:31:37 AM

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Ihmn

I saw this sentence in a worksheet (http://zombat.roosteredge.com/navi/grammar/affixes1.1.pdf):

8.) ay+oe-yä ay+smuke-ri lu yom
our sisters are eating

Is the "lu + verb" structure valid in Na'vi grammar?

Plumps

Hey there, ma Ihmn :)

No, that is actually not correct in Na'vi.

The form would be a present progressive in English or simply an on-going action, for which Na'vi uses the ‹er› infix in the verb (in this case, "eat", yom).

ay+oe-yä ay+smuke y‹er›om
ayoeyä aysmuke yerom

NB: Also, the use of the topic (-ri ending on aysmuke) seems a bit odd to me, I don't know why. The sentence is grammatically fine without it ;)

Hope that helps

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edit: Unfortunately there is no time stamp on that document but it was created by the community (skxawng and taronyu are long time members) but the document is very out of date. It must have been created early 2010. Our grammatical knowledge has improved by now ;)

Tirea Aean

Those zombat roosteredge worksheets by Taronyu and Skxawng are as old as Time itself and are almost certainly not grammatically correct. I recommend the handouts from AvatarMeet made by Dr. Frommer. Download them at http://tirea.learnnavi.org/download (the 101, 102, 103 PDFs)

Ihmn

So it's because we didn't know how the grammar works, instead of the maker of the language actually changed it?

Tìtstewan

Also, there is a sticky topic with liks to a lot of documents in the beginner section where one can get valid learning resources.
https://forum.learnnavi.org/beginners/fb-lm2/

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Plumps

Quote from: Ihmn on September 09, 2016, 10:13:54 AM
So it's because we didn't know how the grammar works, instead of the maker of the language actually changed it?

Exactly ;)