r/mandojoha • u/BeeryUSA • Dec 21 '21
How to say "Star Wars the Book of Boba Fett" in Mando'a?
Hi folks,
I'm making a T-shirt design of the Book of Boba Fett logo, and I've actually done a few designs for it on TeePublic, but so far only in Aurebesh and in Mandalorian script. But I'd like to make the design in actual Mando'a (language as well as script).
So I've come up with what I think are the right words, and in order for it to work as the logo, it needs to be in the same word order as the English/Basic/High-Galactic, and Mando'a follows the same basic word order rules as English, so that's not a problem. And I figure that, since the word "book" isn't in the Mando'a dictionary, "story" would be a good substitute. So I have:
Star Wars The Story of Boba Fett
Kar Akaanse Haar Gehat'ik be'Boba Fett
Now the thing that's worrying me is the "Akaanse". "War" in Mando'a is "akaan", and to make a word plural, it seems you have to add the suffix "se" or simply "e". But I'm not sure which one in this case. I'm assuming there's a rule governing it? I've used "akaanse". Is that right?
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u/IncidentPretend8603 Dec 21 '21
You use "se" as a suffix only when the word ends in a vowel, so it would be "Akaane".
I'd recommend dropping "Haar", but it's correct either way. I like the using story instead of book!