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Nhizo

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Adjectives and their "negative grade"
« on: August 08, 2013, 11:44:48 am »
M'athchomaroon guys,
I've been learning dothraki for a while but now I've got a problem. It's about the adjectives' negative grade. ( http://wiki.dothraki.org/Adjectives ). In the article it says that, for example, osamva = not broken. So if I want to say that 'arakh is not broken,' do I say 'arakh osamvae' or 'arakh vos samvao'? Is there any semanthical difference between those two sentences?

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Re: Adjectives and their "negative grade"
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2013, 12:02:05 pm »
No, no real semantic difference I think. If you instead translate osamva as unbroken rather than "not broken" then you pretty much have an equivalent pair in English; "The sword is unbroken" and "The sword is not broken".
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Re: Adjectives and their "negative grade"
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2013, 12:40:51 pm »
thanks a lot man!  :D