Template talk:User na-3

New translations for the templates

And like the others templates I made a translation for Template:User_na-3. I strictly follow Kayser's Grammar rules. I think we should use modañidañ ‘very good’ as the adjective describing the knowledge of Nauruan in template:User_na-3, because we already have: na-0 = no knowledge; na-1 = basic knowledge; na-2 = good knowledge; na-3 = very good knowledge; na-N = native speaker.

Here is the translation:
O modañidañ an tsiet amune/ãtune ian Dorerin Naoero.

In order to make the translation more understandable, I glossed the text:

O	mo-dañidañ	an	(ø)-tsiet*	amune/ãtune	ian	Dorer-in	Naoero
3.Ps.Sg.: it	good-very	Poss.Pron. his/her	Rel.-knowledge	this man/woman	in	language-3.Ps.Sg.Poss.	Nauru

(*) itsiet ‘knowledge’ has to be in the relative form tsiet because of the possessive pronoun an → cf. "Nauru Grammar", p. 20.

So literally you would translate it as: "This man's/woman's knowledge in the Nauruan language is very good." You can compare this translation with an example of Kayser's Grammar book, page 11:
Ekãow (no, nothing) aũra (their pl.) kamarar (thinking) mũñana (these) imin (things) o gokoro (living). → litt.: "There isn't the thinking of things which live.
"The animal has no intelligence".

By the way, in my opinion, the word isitsiet listed in Delaporte's dictionary is wrong. Just see: When you follow the rules of Kayser, you would have the verb tsiet ‘to know’ (which both Delaporte and Kayser use). Now you would transform this verb into a noun by using e- or i- in front of the verb (Kayser, page 13, § 18). You would get the noun itsiet, which we should use here in Wikipedia, too.--Jamovi 14:07, 25 December 2007 (UTC)