"my father"

Translation: ñuha kepa

[Nate_Rardin]

Really hoping that the drop-down keyboard of all the accented letters becomes available. I get marked off for not having the correct 'n'

[OliverBens1]

It's available now =)

[Wettehan.ruby]

This is hard

[Lea.1717]

Oh, wasn't it High Valyrian that had Celestial, terrestrial etc kinds of grammatical genders instead of the usual feminine/masculine/neuter genders? I may be wrong, but does this mean that "father" and "mother" belong to the same gender?
(I'm assuming because both have "ñuha". Tell me if i'm mistaken...)

[Bibaleebu]

Yeah, they are both lunar-type verbs of the first declension. Most people words are either lunar or solar

[Lea.1717]

Wow...

[Bibaleebu]

It's definitely a change from the natural languages. Then again, the word for beard is feminine in French...so the natural languages are a bit iffy on genders at times as well.

[zerozeroone]

Some language families have no grammatical genders while others use animate and inanimate as the categories for their grammatical genders.

If you can trust Wikipedia, only about 1/4th of the world's languages use grammatical gender.

[qwertyface]

holy shit look at you

[Tankki3]

Does the word order matter?

[elilla.b]

For the verb, yes; it has to come last.

For adjectives and possessives modifying the noun, no; they can go before the noun, or after. However, putting them after the noun makes it sound more formal.

[blankino-182]

As I know, it doesn't - though it is more common for the adjective to precede the noun

[EdelFerry]

Why does it not let me use "ñuha kepe"?

[CristianTo370322]

a) When your message is limited only for saying: My father

kepa ñuha
ñuha kepa

b) If you want to use "my father " in nominative of a sentence, you only must to use:

ñuha kepa

c) When you want to use "my father" in accusative (direct object), It`s then than "my" and "father" change the form

"kepa" in accusative takes the form " kepe"

"kepa" is a lunar and singular noun. Thus , the "singular lunar my" is "ñuhe" in High Valyrian

Then:

ñuhe kepe: the father (accusative)

Example 1:

• ñuha riña ñuhe kepe majaqsa

It`s possible this translation

• My girl admires my father

majaqsa: admires (conjugation of third person")

Ejemplo

• Ñuha kepa ñuhe riñe majaqsa

It`s possible this translation

• My father admires my girl

"Riñe" is the accusative form of "riña"

[MadLatinist]

Well, since you have no context it's probably best to assume nominative. But even if you want accusative, it should be ñuhe kepe.

[EdelFerry]

Okay thank you!