Modern Ravenish/Phrasebook

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Basics

Greetings

  • Hello;
    • hailar, salar? (singular)
    • hailaret, salaret? (plural)
  • Hi;
    • hailar (singular)
    • hailaret (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!;
    • helf! (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)

Numbers

  • 1 - aunar
  • 2 - tvai
  • 3 - tri (backformed from tritehun)
  • 4 - fedur (backformed from fedurtehun)
  • 5 - fymf
  • 6 - sehs
  • 7 - sebun
  • 8 - ahtou
  • 9 - nevun
  • 10 - tehun
  • 11 - aunalif
  • 12 - tvalif
  • 13 - tritehun
  • 14 - fedurtehun
  • 15 - fymftehun
  • 16 - sehstehun
  • 17 - sebuntehun
  • 18 - ahtoutehun
  • 19 - nevuntehun
  • 20 - tvateguret
  • 30 - triteguret
  • 40 - fedurteguret
  • 50 - fymfteguret
  • 60 - sehsteguret
  • 70 - sebunteguret
  • 80 - ahtouteguret
  • 90 - nevunteguret
  • 100 - hunda
  • 120 - hundarada
  • 1000 - tuusundii

Currency

Euro

  • cent - sentti
  • 2 cent - tvasentti
  • 5 cent - fimfsentti
  • 10 cent - tehunsentti
  • 20 cent - fimfosasentti
  • half euro - sämisentti
  • euro - euro
  • 2 euro - tva'euro

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

  • Finland - suomi

Regions

North Ostrobothnia
Municipalities
Cities

Natural features

Water

Historical

Peoples

Ethnicities

Communities

(up to date)

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', not from the original feminine form.)

Mine

    • Ierumidd - jerumid/jerumisko

tiudisko

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

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/uunikava/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)