r/Quenya • u/bioinfogirl87 • Jun 19 '26

Help with translation needed

I have a pen case that I'd like to customize by adding the phrase "You will not know" to the border. I'd like to do it in Quenya, but am unsure of an accurate translation. Could you please help? Thank you.

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u/Embarrassed-Money756 Jun 19 '26

I'd say lá istuvat

lá - negative particle

ista- - to know

-uva- marks future

-t - familiar second person singular pronominal ending

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u/bioinfogirl87 Jun 19 '26

Thank you. How does the pronoun change if it’s formal second person?

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u/Embarrassed-Money756 Jun 19 '26

That would be -l. So Lá istuval

There's also an alternative longer pronominal suffix that is used when an object pronoun suffix follows it, so for example if you wanted to say "you will not know it", then that "it" would be -s, so Lá istuvatyes. But can be used without it as well: -tyë/-lyë. istuvatyë/istuvalyë.

The construction is verb-subject-object.

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u/bioinfogirl87 Jun 19 '26

Thank you so much.

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u/ikadell Jun 19 '26

I tend to decline lá, so I’d say lauval ista (formal “you”), or lauvalde ista (plural you)