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Started by Nongyu te Syulang Swokioang'itan, November 17, 2011, 03:42:40 AM

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Nongyu te Syulang Swokioang'itan

Well, I do know the plurals of Na'vi: Me+, pxe+ and ay+.
So I wondered: Would "all" or "every" in Na'vi become ayaw?

BTW, would this be the correct way to gloss it?

Ayaw
PLU+one
All/every
In the unwieldy situation of knowing way more grammar than vocab

Txonä Unil Stä'nìyu Rolyusì

Well for 'every' we have the prefix "fra-" which is attached to nouns to mean 'every [noun]'.

I don't think "ayaw" would make sense in Na'vi because the ay+ prefix is a plural prefix for nouns which " 'aw" is not. For 'all' we usually use "nìwotx", an adverb meaning 'all (of), in toto, completely.'

Hope this helps :)

-Txonä Rolyu




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Nongyu te Syulang Swokioang'itan

Irayo ma Txonä! It helped!  :) :)
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Blue Elf

As Txona rolyu said, you use prefix fra- + noun. If you want to say "all", you must be specific:
- all things, everything -> fra'u
- all people, everyone -> frapo
- all action -> frakem
- all time, always -> frakrr
etc.
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Luciancanad

Sort of following on this thread, do our blue friends have a different word to refer to Eywa as "All-Mother", or is it really just fra-sa'nok?

Irtaviš Ačankif

Kehe. It is "Nawma Sa'nok", meaning "Great Mother." All-Mother is AGAIN, a liberal translation in the subtitles.
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Blue Elf

Quote from: Uniltìrantokx te Skxawng on November 20, 2011, 08:22:51 PM
Kehe. It is "Nawma Sa'nok", meaning "Great Mother." All-Mother is AGAIN, a liberal translation in the subtitles.
to be precise, it is "Great Mother" in meaning of "Noble Mother"
Oe lu skxawng skxakep. Slä oe nerume mi.
"Oe tasyätxaw ulte koren za'u oehu" (Limonádový Joe)


Luciancanad

Quote from: Uniltìrantokx te Skxawng on November 20, 2011, 08:22:51 PM
Kehe. It is "Nawma Sa'nok", meaning "Great Mother." All-Mother is AGAIN, a liberal translation in the subtitles.

Kay thanks. And cut me some slack, it's my first post ^_^