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ivysage08
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on: June 10, 2017 01:50
"Long will the warriors praise the countries." Here is my translation: "Anda i mahtari laituvar i nóri." Did I do this correctly, because I kinda made the sentence look like this: "Long the warriors will praise the countries." Is there a better way of doing this without switching the words in the sentence?

[Edited on 06/10/2017 by ivysage08]
dirk_math
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on: June 10, 2017 02:28
The Quenya word order is different from the English word order. The word order in your translation is correct.
But I have another remark: long is an adverb in this sentence so it should be andavë (the praising is long not the warriors or the countries).
Yassë engë lómë, anarties calali.
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on: June 10, 2017 03:50
Haha. Thanks! I was told about andavë on another website, too! I'll make sure to correct that! Thank goodness this was correct because I felt as if I was using sentence structure completely wrong!
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