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A: Spaw oel futa Mo'atìl tsole'a Neytirit.
B: Kehe. Tsole'a Neytirit Eytukanìl.
A: I believe Mo'at saw Neytiri.
B: No, the one who saw Neytiri was Eytukan.
(Here the speaker has chosen a word order that puts Eytukanìl at the end of the sentence to highlight the important, contrastive information—just as the English translation does, but less concisely than the Na'vi.)
Word Order and Case Marking with Modals (naviteri.org, 2011-03-19) View all from source
Eytukanìl tse'a Neytirit.
Eytukan sees Neytiri.
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Oel teylut new yivom.
I want to eat teylu.
(So a reanalysis takes place, where new yivom is thought of as a single, transitive verb, making 9b possible.)
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Po tsun tsive'a ngati.
He can see you.
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Pol fpìlit verar wivan.
He's continuing to hide the idea.
(He's keeping his idea a secret.)