Modern Ravenish/Phrasebook

Basics

Greetings

• Hello;
  • haila, sala? (singular)
  • hailat, salat? (plural)

• Hi;
  • hail (singular)
  • hailat (plural)
  • terve (More familiar in tone but neutral in formality) {From Finnish}

• Welcome - viljakvem (as a verb - viljakvemana)

Status

(Up to date) How are you?;

• hvo sinä? (to 1)
• hvo te? (plural/singular polite)

Responses

• I'm good - vela ma. (Lit. - I'm well capable)
• I'm bad/not good - unvela ma. (Lit. - I'm unwell capable; I'm quite incapable)
• and you? - , ja sinä? (singular); , ja te?(plural/singular polite)

Introductions

Names

(Up to date)

• What is your name?;
  • hvat sinun namoo iri? (to 1, informal)
  • hvat teidän namoo iri? (to 1, formal)
  • hvat teidän namoo irud? (to 2+)

• My name is [];
  • minun namoo ymmi [name in acc.]

• I am [];
  • minä ymmi [name in acc.]

Location

Origins

(Up to date)

• • Where are you from? - hvatro kvymiri? (Sing.)
  • Where are you from? - hvatro kvymid? (Pl.)

I'm from...

(Up to date)

• I'm from [] - kvemo fram [place in acc.]

Affection

• I love/like you;
  • (minä) frijo sinut

Commands

• Help!;
  • hel! (2nd sing.)
  • hilpid! (2nd plur.)

Questions

Ordering

• Would you like some []? - (Te) [Thing in partitive] viliir? (sing.)
• Would you like some []? - (te) [Thing in partitive] viliid? (pl.)

• Just a little - (vain) liitil

Conlanging

• Conlang (noun) - tekosprekava
• Conlang (verb) - tekosprekaa (Kotus type 56*D/kaivaa, k-∅ gradation)

Earth

Countries

Countries are percieved as feminine due to the fact that they're parts of earth, this has no grammatical impact but a cultural one.

• Finland - suomi

Peoples

Communities

(up to date)

• Furry - manndeura/turri
  • Fursuit - manndeurpuku/turripuku

Religions

• faith - -usko (from Finnish)
• Germanic paganism - ansusko (áss faith)
• Judaism - juudusko (Jew faith)
• Christianity - gudsunusko (God-son faith)

Conworlds

langs

-ish - -isko ('o' regained from conflation with 'usko')

• Mine
  • Ierumidd - jerumid/jerumisko

• Friend's
  • Mr >:-) (AlanVonHeinlein)
    • Huung - huungur/huungisko
    • Alfian - alfir/alfi(r)isko
  • iwaju (iwa)
    • Uzennish - itsen(isko)
    • Reglite - lili(isko)
    • Hoyoran - oju/ojuisko
  • Aenil (Ænil)
    • Uinnic - uunika/uunikaza/uunikisko
    • Anilosan - önirysi(isko)
  • Talking Pineapple
    • Hobmanistadi - hobmein(isko)

Names in parentheses are the CWS usernames of the people.

(This will take significantly longer than all other sections as I get the creator's opinion on what it should be)

Profanities

• From Finnish
  • hell/damn - helvetti (From Finnish helvetti)
  • what the hell? - (Mildly vulgar) mitä helvettja?
  • What the heck? - (childish) mitä hittoa?
  • oh fuck! - voi kyrpä!
  • cock (penis) - (offensive) kyrpä
  • fuck (interjection/intensifier) - vittu