"Your"?

Started by Maweyatan, March 19, 2010, 09:44:33 PM

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Maweyatan

I was wondering if there was a translation for the 'inglisi word "your".


Fnua Atxkxe

#1
Ngeyä = Your

It is simply the word nga + the genitive suffix. There are a good grammar sheets explaining the genitive. The genitive suffix simply makes the word the possessor not the possessed i.e.

For words ending in a consonant add the (ä) suffix e.g.
Ikran + ä ----> Ikranä= The ikran's

and for words ending in a vowel you add the (yä) suffix e.g.
Eywa + yä -----> Eywayä= Eywa's

and for prounouns it is the (eyä) suffix which overides the vowels on the end of a word e.g.

Oe+eyä ----> Oeyä = My

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Maweyatan

#2
Sorry for not replying sooner. Irayo ma fnua atxkxe. So for example if I wanted to say "A Thanator is eating your Avatar body." I'd say "palulukan yomanger ngayä uniltirantokx tokx."? nimun, irayo for srung.

Eywa ngahu, ma tsmuk.

(Sorry if this was kind of off-topic.)


NeotrekkerZ

QuoteI'd say "palulukan yomanger ngayä uniltirantokx tokx."?

Palulukanìl yerom ngeyä uniltìrantokxä tokxit

Don't forget the ergative and accusative suffixes.
You'd say "your avatar's body" hence the ä on unilìrantokx.

Also, there are different "yours" in Na'vi depending on number:

Singular nga becomes ngeyä
dual menga becomes mengeyä
trial pxenga becomes pxengeyä
general plural aynga becomes ayngeyä

Hope that clears it all up.
Rìk oe lu hufwemì, nìn fya'ot a oe tswayon!

wm.annis

Since the compound word uniltìrantokx already contains the word "body," you probably can just use it alone.  Uniltìranyu is the person driving the avatar.

Maweyatan

ah! I see! I'm trying to get down the vocab, tenses, etc all at once. I'm getting myself confused, is what I'm doing. Irayo ma Palulukan Makto. And yes, it did clear things up. I'm going to have to study harder!  ;D