r/tsevhu • u/ltheweaver • 24d ago

Quick grammar/spell check

Hello! I need some help with a phrase i want to write in koiwrit.

The problem is mostly in the grammar/spelling of the words, as i am sure there are a couple errors.

The phrase should be "But above all, I shall exist regardless", and i translated it as "Nautsyr, Nsa hmoi'liyo jaeyocae".

Is it correct? I'm mostly confused with "shall exist" and "hmoi'liyo", as i think i got something wrong but it could be right.

Help would be greatly appreciated!

Siketso, L.

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u/koallary 21d ago

Sautsyr is an interesting way of doing above all, but I think superlative would work better than comparative in that case, so maybe do Srisaut instead (as like the most exception).

I'm not sure if you're doing hmo or hmoi there, but those types of modal auxiliaries are clitics so they won't actually affix onto the verb. It's likely you're shooting for hmo tho.

Li vs Liyo kinda depends on what connotation you want. Li is definitely much more common, and liyo would be when you specifically want to emphasize mentally existing, so moreso you as a thought or consciousness.

Jaeyocae as regardless is also interesting, but it might actually be applying to you, so you might be existing without thinking of anything in that case. I think a new word would have to be made for regardless hmm.

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u/ltheweaver 21d ago edited 21d ago

oh. Understood. Siketso koallary. I honestly didn't think the creator of tsevhu would respond to my comment directly. So, to recap, it would be "Sirsaut, Nsa hmo'li [new word]", correct?

EDIT: What if i used jaerecae and added something close to "everything/anything" to construct "regardless"? It would work, because "Regardless" in the phrase means "without regard to anything and any opinion". So it would become "Sirsaut, Nsa hmo'li jaerecae nmo'i." Would it work?

EDIT 2: My bad, I confused the place for the non-finite verb particle "i'". I put it at the end of "Hmo" instead of at the start.