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- "Issa, kirine iksan."
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I thought "Yes" was "Kessa", and not "Issa" . At least that's what it says everywhere on the internet.
The course is not made by the inventor, but in an official page of high valyrian does say that yes is kessa, and that one is made by the inventor
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"Kessa" is another form of "issa". There are a lot of forms of low valyrian through Essos and it's possible "kessa" comes from one of the 10+ dialects
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I would presume that there is actually no word for Yes, as mentioned in the notes for this exercise, but the positive reply will echo the verb in the question. Issa meaning 'it is'; kessa meaning possibly 'it does, goes, has, etc...'
http://wiki.dothraki.org/High_Valyrian_Verb_Tables#sagon
According to this page, both are forms of the verb 'to be', but issa is present tense, whereas kessa is future tense, so a precise translation might be "it is so" or "it will be so" respectively. So perhaps you'd use "issa" in answer to an question about how things are, but "kessa" in response to a request to do something?