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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 17, 2013, 09:53:11 am »
Sorry for the double post. I have a question about vekhat: there's a specific reason why it assignes the genitive to the subject or it's just an irregularity?

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 15, 2013, 08:28:04 am »
Oh, I see, thank you :)

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 15, 2013, 06:33:21 am »
I was looking at the syntax page, and while reading the questions section I noticed that Fin shafka okki? it's translated with which will you choose?

Can you explain  to me why there's no future tense's prefix?

It may be a stupid question, but I'm trying to understand how things work xD

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 14, 2013, 07:20:18 am »
Me again :)

I was looking at comparative and superlative adjectives: would it be right to say that they uses circumfixes?

If I want to be more specific I mean, because Wiki just says
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in Dothraki this is done by adding certain affixes to the adjective.

But if I take the stem out, wouldn't they be a(s)--(a)n for the comparison and a(s)---(a)naz for the superlative?

(With as- if the adjective starts with a vowel, I think)

Or they are just considered prefix + suffix?

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 03:25:21 pm »
Trying to convey in Italian some English explanation of Dothraki, it's a little bit tricky, but I'll make it!

I had some issues with the irresultative (verb) class, but mostly because I had to change the examples, because the Italian meaning of to stab doesn't go well with fruit, imo.  (in the irresultative version)
 
So I change it in rakh vinde jan (the boy stabbed the dog) and rakh vinde janaan (the boy stabbed at the dog)... the allative case has the right declension?

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:53:44 am »
Well ok then, thank you Qvaak :)

Now that's better, I finally saw the light XD

Can I bother you/the forum with some other doubts if I need to? ^^

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:23:23 am »
I'm sorry for my mind and for you all that have to put up with me in this state XD

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:19:08 am »
ahahaha no, I'm really blabbering 'cause I read genitive and I thought nominative, and that's why I write it XD oh god, I'm so so so sorry.

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 11:06:10 am »
Uh, by the way, I was reading about verb classes and there is one in which you have to use the genitive with a verb of movement, when the movement is beside another body... I know that neither yolat nor drivolat are verb of movement, but they are describing the sun movements in a metaphorical way... or not?

Uff, I'm blabbering, maybe I just need to rest (and die a little) ;)


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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 10:44:22 am »
Ok, I thought you mean the other way round :)
I don't know, but I think you may be right.

Let's wait for the Dothraki version now :D

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Beginners / Re: Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 10:28:57 am »
I didn't think at this possibility and I lost myself in your post...do you think that they (east/west) should be uppercase or lowercase?


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Beginners / Help needed for a senior thesis
« on: March 13, 2013, 09:09:38 am »
Hello there forum!

I'm writing a thesis on constructed languages and Dothraki and since I have some doubts I though to ask the experts!  ;D

I'm a newbie, obviously, and while looking at the wiki page for season one's Dothraki dialogue, I found a sentence that I don't understand... I mean, I do understand it, but I don't know why there's a case instead of another.

The sentence is:

Affin shekh yola she jimma ma drivoe she titha / When sun rises from the west and sets in the east

I was wondering why jimma and titha are in their nominative case and not in their ablative/allative form; I know that there is she, which in this case convey the nominative, but why?

I know that this may be a stupid question, but I don't understand... maybe also because I'm one of the few Italians who has never studied Latin, my bad.

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