Brand new!

[hiyìk tutean]

Alright, so I'm brand new at Na'vi, and I want to know if I'm at least writing it out correctly. I tried a slightly complex sentence:

Oe Tawtuteta lu slä oel plltxe Na'vi nayumeie.

Which, if I indicated the suffixes and infixes would like like:

Oe Tawtute-ta lu slä oe-l plltxe Na'vi n<ay>um<ei>e.

I was going for something along the lines of "I am of the Skypeople, but I am learning (happily) to speak Na'vi.

Am I close?


And, completely unrelated question... On the ejectives, the 'x' just indicated the glottal stop? It doesn't make a noise, right?

[omängum fra'uti]

Kaltxì, hiyìk tutean

Looks good to me, though when referring to speaking a language it's usually used as an adverb with the nì- prefix.

plltxe nì-Na'vi
Speaking in Na'vi (Lit. Na'vi-illy speaking)

The x just indicates it's an ejective.  px, tx, kx are each individual consonant sounds.  There is a glottal stop as part of the ejective, then during the glotal stop (IE without any air from the lungs) you make the p, t or k sounds.

[hiyìk tutean]

Ah! Irayo!

When I first saw them, I thought the actual letter 'x' actually made a noise. Tslolam!


I was trying to say "You're welcome" earlier, but the closest thing I could get was along the lines of

Tsnìri lu.

Trying for lit.

It is nothing.

Though I think... i didn't do so well!

[omängum fra'uti]

I think that would translate more as "thas is".

For "That is nothing", you could probably do...

Fì'u ke lu
This-thing not be

Or since usually what people would say is "It was nothing"

Fì'u ke lìmu
This-thing not was

Or
Fì'uri ke'u lìmu
This-thing, nothing was

[Txur’Itan]

I think that would translate more as "thas is".

For "That is nothing", you could probably do...

Fì'u ke lu
This-thing not be

Or since usually what people would say is "It was nothing"

Fì'u ke lìmu
This-thing not was

Or
Fì'uri ke'u lìmu
This-thing, nothing was

Seems like Japanese grammar.  concepts of state are left at the end of the sentence.

Understand  I do
we go
good at this you are

[omängum fra'uti]

For "That is nothing", you could probably do...

Ke lu fì'u
Not be this-thing

Or since usually what people would say is "It was nothing"

Ke lìmu fì'u
Not was this-thing

Or
Lìmu fì'uri ke'u
Was, this thing, nothing

Still means the same thing.  The only word in any of those sentences which has a significant position is ke, and that is only significant in that it comes before the verb lu.  By common use, verbs (Or at least the verb lu) tend to be at the end of the sentence, but there is no requirement for that we know of.