participles

Started by Kahmeh, March 02, 2010, 10:35:24 PM

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Kahmeh

Not sure how to call them but whatever it is that English calls past/passive participles... as far as I can find after digging through this board and the wiki Na'vi still does not have a way to express something like 'they have been taken down' and it's driving me crazy.
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wm.annis

Yours is a grammar question, I'm afraid.  This list is for vocabulary only.

Kahmeh

And I almost didn't bother, either... I hate starting topics. D:
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DasSchnabeltier

I'm not sure about the full passive voice construction, but I know those words all exist. Na'vi uses the infix <us> to form a participle, and I don't think there's a distinction between past and present participles. So you can say tusaron, hunted, from taron. I would guess you could make the passive voice using these elements and lu, be, and it would be something like "Poan tusaron lamu," he hunted was. Although you'd have to get the word order and verification from someone with more experience:)