"Taoba valā līrisi."
Translation:The boy and the man smile.
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Vala= the man; Valā= and the man. The ā does have the function to count the subjects, which are doing the same thing or are being in the same condition
For the word "vala" but also every other noun, when do i knowthat its plural or not? Halp please
It depends on which class the noun belongs to. But in the case of the word "vala", the plural form is "vali". The same goes for ābra/ābri, taoba/taobi and riña/riñi.
Yes and no. "Vala" is the singular and "vali" is the plural, so "vali" is wrong because it's "man", not "men".
But it's "valā" rather than "vala" because that's how the "and" is expressed in "the boy and the man".
https://www.duolingo.com/skill/hv/Basics-1/tips-and-notes
SIMPLE COORDINATION
High Valyrian doesn't use a word like "and" when coordinating two nouns or two adjectives. Instead, the last word in a pair trio of nouns, adjectives, or even verbs is modified in some way to indicate that it is participating in a coordinative structure. One common strategy is to lengthen the final vowel of the last word in a list and shift the word's stress to the end. Watch out for word-final long vowels in sentences with coordination!