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Nimrodel of Lothlorien
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on: March 29, 2014 05:00
I saw this one meme online and it was Aragorn and Legolas. Long story short Aragorn eventually said "Havo dad." Legolas then plopped on the ground with his arms crossed. Does anyone know what the translation for havo dad is? I looked in the dictionaries on here and I found that dad meant down but I couldn't find havo. Please help. I really wanna know what that means. >.< Thanks for reading.
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on: March 29, 2014 05:31
I think it means "sit down", but let me check up on that for you, Nimrodel of Lorien.
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on: March 29, 2014 05:36
Yes, it does. "dad" does indeed mean "down", and "hav", from "havo," does nean "sit." I am assumming that the suffix "-o" on "havo" denotes a command, as in "caro", which means "make!" as a command. Im not 100% sure, though.
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on: March 30, 2014 08:16
Yip, it's the imperative form of a verb.
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on: May 08, 2014 07:27
i was just wondering how you say "dh" like in "gladhad" and also how to pronounce lhaew
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on: May 09, 2014 03:03
The Sindarin 'dh' is the 'th' found in 'then', 'that', 'this'. (As opposed to Sindarin 'th' which is the 'th' in 'think', 'thought'.)

Edit - appears my headset broke at some point before recording that, I'll re-record it when I buy a new one.

[Edited on 05/13/2014 by Galadivren]
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