Third attempt at making a proper Na'vi sentence.

[Rìkxa]

Tirea Aean has been helping me understand how to form a sentence in Na'vi and at first I made a very English mistake. The second try had one mistake where I shouldn't have had -l added onto a word. This is my third attempt to make a successful sentence and I wanted to get corrected if needed by others since Tirea Aean is now offline. There's probably going to be mistakes, but learning and attempting is how I'm going to get better. Is this sentence correct?

Ikran Rìkxayä swerayon ne Swotulu.

[Kemaweyan]

"serwayon" is incorrect. Why do you think that there should be a lenition? Lenition happens only after certain prefixes or adposions, in the dictionary those are marked with "+": ay+, me+, mì+, fpi+ etc. Also we can use lenition without ay+ to create a short plural: tsmukan -> aysmukan -> smukan, but you can omit only a prefix ay+.

And about infix. We always put infixes into syllable before a vowel: tsw<0><1>a-y<2>on, so you should put -er- before "a" of a syllable "tswa": tswerayon. Infixes never could stay before consonant. So correct sentence would be Ikran Rìkxayä tswerayon ne Swotulu.

[omängum fra'uti]

Aside from the infix and lenition Kemaweyan mentioned, the sentence looks good if what you intended to say was "Rikxa's ikran is (currently) flying to Swotulu".  If you didn't meant it is a currently happening action, then without further context the <er> infix would likely not be correct there.

[Rìkxa]

"serwayon" is incorrect. Why do you think that there should be a lenition? Lenition happens only after certain prefixes or adposions, in the dictionary those are marked with "+": ay+, me+, mì+, fpi+ etc. Also we can use lenition without ay+ to create a short plural: tsmukan -> aysmukan -> smukan, but you can omit only a prefix ay+.

And about infix. We always put infixes into syllable before a vowel: tsw<0><1>a-y<2>on, so you should put -er- before "a" of a syllable "tswa": tswerayon. Infixes never could stay before consonant. So correct sentence would be Ikran Rìkxayä tswerayon ne Swotulu.

I was just a confused person about the whole lenition thing, but now I understand that lenitions can only happen after those certain prefixes and some are mentioned in your post. The er being in the wrong place was a typo in my sentence. It was very late (in my time) when I posted the sentence.

[Dreamlight]

"serwayon" is incorrect. Why do you think that there should be a lenition? Lenition happens only after certain prefixes or adposions, in the dictionary those are marked with "+": ay+, me+, mì+, fpi+ etc.
[snip]

Also, it should be added that adpositions lenite a word only if it is preposed, and not if it is postposed. 
Thus kifkey -> hifkey in "mì hifkey" but unchanged in "kifkeymì".

[Tirea Aean]

Spoiler: Lenition Prezi lesson from NgayNume project 2010

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