"The boy and the man are sweating."

Translation: Taoba valā nagesi.

[evan.manning]

What is the difference between 'valā' and 'valī'?

[Joel__W]

• valā can be the locative singular, or when used to say "and X" and has word-final stress the nominative or locative singular (stress is not written)
• valī can be the accusative plural, or the nominate or accusative plural if it has word-final stress i.e. means "and X"

[VSomnus]

I can't really understand this explanation. :(

[Sykes92]

I don't know how people are overcomplicating this.

Valā - Singular. One man.

Valī - Plural. More than one man.

[scotty17587]

"Valā" is for a specific boy, and "Valī" is for collectives...as i read it.

[BagasPrako]

Man, not boy

[AnnaMathil1]

What is the difference between taoba and when you put a line above the last a?

[Nelli315140]

'taoba' means 'the boy'
'taobā' means 'and the boy'

[HaNoder]

This is the hardest languege that i have ever seen!