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Beginners / Re: Adjectives

« on: November 21, 2013, 03:56:38 am »

There was a movement earlier in the last century among scientifically literate English speakers to 'modernize' English by dropping some of these epenthetic letters. For instance, 'modernize' would become 'moderniz'. Although I got used to it, reading their writings was annoying at first.

It's like ё instead of final e in Quenya (and not only final, for example, the name Ёarendil) - as a Russian native speaker, I would never read [irendil] instead of [earendil] - but it is necessary to add, because Tolkien was an English speaker)

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Beginners / Re: Adjectives

« on: November 13, 2013, 02:08:22 pm »

Thank you very much!

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Beginners / Adjectives

« on: November 11, 2013, 11:41:52 am »

Hello!
I've just started to learn Dothraki using the video lessons and I've got some questions.
First of all, the lesson Zero was about epenthesis and in the lessons 8-9 we see "Ko laja zhavvors", "Zhavvorsa imesh zhila zhavvors ershe". Should the Accusative form be zhavvors instead of zhavvorse?
Secondly, about the adjectives. There are many examples of present tense, but how to say something like "My son is not strong, but he will be strong"? Rizh anni vos hajo vosma me ahaja? Can we conjugate adjectives like usual verbs?
Thanks,
Maegi (Lyna).