Sentence Checking - Lenition and Prefixes

Started by C'tri Atan'itan, May 31, 2010, 06:24:58 PM

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C'tri Atan'itan

hey guys, got a sentence here I could use a readover =]


oel herawnu ngayä ayunil ahähawng ma 'ite

Bit unsure about the lenition and 'against' affix on Kawng, first time using a prefix & Lenition like that =]
(Not so interested in 'better ways' of saying it, or that the literal translation doesn't match, more interested in the grammar rules being right and everything :))
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NeotrekkerZ

Grammar only then:

oel herawnu ngeyä ayunilit wä hawng ma 'ite.
Rìk oe lu hufwemì, nìn fya'ot a oe tswayon!

C'tri Atan'itan

awesome, but what happens to the A on the front/end of the adjective?
I remember reading that it (or the dative) needs to be used to indicate what the adjective is describing?

I understand about the missed Lenition on ngeyä, and the -it on the end of ayunil, is just the the "against evil" I would like some explanation on the changes :)
~C'tri
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Quote from: C'tri Atan'itan on June 01, 2010, 06:31:38 AM
awesome, but what happens to the A on the front/end of the adjective?
I remember reading that it (or the dative) needs to be used to indicate what the adjective is describing?

I understand about the missed Lenition on ngeyä, and the -it on the end of ayunil, is just the the "against evil" I would like some explanation on the changes :)
~C'tri
"Evil" in your sentence is not an adjective, but a noun. NeotrekkerZ's sentence isn't quite correct, it should be oel herawnu ngeyä ayunilit sìkawng ma 'ite.
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C'tri Atan'itan

ah, thank you :D
doesn't wä get added onto the front of the word? or does it just sit there before it?
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kewnya txamew'itan

Quote from: C'tri Atan'itan on June 01, 2010, 09:10:35 AM
ah, thank you :D
doesn't wä get added onto the front of the word? or does it just sit there before it?

Adpositions can go in two places, either they appear before the word but unattached like an English preposition, or they attach on the end of a word like a case ending.

So itwould either be wä sìkawng or tìkawngwä
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NeotrekkerZ

That'll teach me to correct after 1am, thanks for catching my error guys. 
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