"Hontesse issi."

[OliverBens1]

Why do "Hontes" and "Azantys" conjugate differently to "Vala" and "Taoba"? Thanks

[AlejandroM228561]

It's because hontes ends in consonant and vala ends in vowel

[VolleKappa]

Can't it be "Those are birds?"

[SprightBark]

There are words for this that these those, etc.

[Edit: See Joel__W's comment for the translation of "Those are birds."]

Whether those should be accepted anyway here would be up to the course volunteers. Generally where a separate word for such things exist, I think the course volunteers choose not to accept such translations.

See also: https://wiki.dothraki.org/High_Valyrian_Pronouns#Demonstrative_and_interrogative_pronouns

[Joel__W]

"Those (ones) are birds" is Boni hontesse issi, since you need to use the substantive (noun) form of the adjective (nom.sg. bony, nom.pl. boni).

[SprightBark]

Thanks, this is the area of my greatest confusion or slip-ups in the language. :-/

(I will try not to mistreat these substantives as adjectives again!)