The Number System

[Uniltìranyu]

Na'vi use a base-8 (Octal) number system, composed of 8 digits: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7. A second column added to the left uses these same digits to indicate values eight times greater. Digits in a third column have a value sixty-four times greater, and so on.
E.g., 2,475 = (2 x 512) + (4 x 64) + (7 x 8) + (5 x 1) = 1,024 + 256 + 56 + 5 = 1,341.
Early in the history of their language, the Na'vi had no words for numbers higher than vofu (0o16), the sum of all the fingers and toes on their body. Anything more was simply called pxay (many).
~From the Avatar an Activist Survival Guide, p.33

This is simply a rough intro into Octal counting. Not meant to replace any actual experience with the system, it simply gives a rough idea of how octal counting works.

[Seze]

Early in the history of their language, the Na'vi had no words for numbers higher than vofu (0o16), the sum of all the fingers and toes on their body. Anything more was simply called pxay (many).
~From the Avatar an Activist Survival Guide, p.33

Interesting bit of history.  Makes counting so much easier if it stops at vofu, though I think we are past the early days now...

[Alìm Tsamsiyu]

They do say "five" in the movie though. Just thought about that.

Grace asks Norm "How's your Na'Vi?"
He answers many things. Don't remember it all by heart.

She says he's a bit formal.

He answers "I've been studying for 5 years, but I have a lot to learn." !

:O

Anyone?

Hmm.. He's a bit formal, and a bit incorrect it would seem (although, Cameron did INTEND for the humans to be partially incorrect in their Na'vi, so the "native speakers" sound a bit more native xD ).

Anyway, the first word is obviously "Zìsìtyä" - which would mean year's, not "years" (which would be "Aysìsìt" - not sure if I lenited that correctly or not).

The next word, which I would imagine would be "five" sounds like "mrrsta".

After that it seems like he might be saying "oeyä" and I've got no clue on the last word before "slä", sounds almost like "ohur."

Last time I checked the vocab, study was "ftia," which he definitely doesn't say.  Unless there's some really strange hidden Present Perfective Progressive tense in there that I can't pick out...

[Atanä mungeyu]

does anyone know the number 3,really need it for my ethymilogical name
irayo,eywa ayngahu

[kewnya txamew'itan]

If it does exist, I can't seem to find it, I need it for the translating Hamlet project (a clown makes a reference to an act having three branches), until Frommer tells us how to make trial forms and three I think we'll just have to wait.

[Atanä mungeyu]

sadly enough,i think you're right...
irayo anyways XD
eywa ayngahu