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Lesson 5 - Eating and drinking

This lesson is covered in more detail in Week 8 of Introduction to Sindarin

Something that comes up a lot in table top roleplaying (and indeed real life) is buying items, particularly food and drink! In order to do that, you need to be able to ask for what you would like, and respond to someone else.
Amdiron, Siron and Ivrinel are now friends, so they use informal language with each other.

Drinking

Ivrinel: Ai, Amdiron a Siron! Tolo, havo nef e naur a nin.
Amdiron: Gin hannon! Ci mael?
Ivrinel: Ni faug.
Siron: Man anírog? Herw, glinen egor nen?
Ivrinel: An
íron cherw, gin hannon.
Amdiron: Nen annin,
penin aníred an cherw.
Siron: Dandolathon lim!

Ivrinel: Ah, Amdiron and Siron! Come, sit beside the fire with me.
Amdiron: Thank you! Are you well?
Ivrinel: I'm thirsty.
Siron: What do you want? Wine, mead or water?
Ivrinel: I want wine, thank you.
Amdiron: Water for me, I don't want wine.
Siron: I will return quickly!

Vocabulary
a = and

Tolo = come
havo = sit
nef = beside, on this side of
e naur = the fire
a nin = with me, by me
Gin hannon! = Thank you!
Ni faug = I'm thirsty
Man an
írog? = What do you want?
herw
= wine
glinor = mead
egor = or
nen = water

aníron = I want
penin aníred an = I don't want (I lack desire for)
annin = for me

Dandolathon = I will return
lim
= quickly
The thorny issue of how to say 'thank you' in Sindarin.
You may be aware that there is one issue that causes a considerable amount of dissent among Tolkien scholars, and it's how to say a simple 'thank you'! David Salo gave us the infamous Le hannon in his dialogues for the films (which I updated to Len/Gin hannon), but you may also come across a newly coined phrase Annon allen. For some more information on these two versions, click here.

Eating

Siron: Thî felin haeg. Man mann sevim?
Amdiron: Aes, bass, yf, pae ennas
Siron: Aníron halph a bass na glî. Ivrinel, man anírog maded?
Ivrinel: Cordof annin. Gin hannon Amdiron.
Amdiron: i 'ell nîn!

Siron: Now I'm hungry. What food do we have?
Amdiron: There is cooked meat, bread, fruits, vegetables
Siron: I want soup and bread with honey. Ivrinel, what do you want to eat?
Ivrinel: An apple for me. Thank you Amdiron.
Amdiron: My pleasure!


Vocabulary
Felin haeg = I feel hungry
Man mann sevim? = What food do we have? (Mann = Food)
Dha = There is/are
aes = meat (cooked)
bass = bread
yf = fruits (iof = a fruit)
pae = vegetable(s)
salph = soup
a bass na
glî = and bread with honey (Glî = Honey)
Man
anírog maded? = What do you want to eat?
Cordof = An apple (small and red)
annin = for me
i 'ell n
în = My joy, my pleasure

Formal vs Informal

As you haven't studied verb endings or pronouns yet, here are the differences between the formal and the informal.
Formal
(an authority figure or stranger)

Informal
(someone you know well)

English
Man anírol?
Man anírog?
What do you want?
Len hannon
Gin hannon
Thank you
Den sevil?
Den sevig?
Do you have (possess) it?
Le faug?
Ci faug?
Are you thirsty?
Le saeg?
Ci saeg?
Are you hungry?

Further vocabulary

Food and drink vocabulary
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  • Home
    • Donations
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  • Words
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  • Lessons
    • Lessons 1-10 >
      • 1 - Pronunciation >
        • Sindarin IPA
      • 2 - Greetings
      • 3 - Origins >
        • Sindarin place names
      • 4 - Questions
      • 5 - Eating & drinking
      • 6 - Plurals (1)
      • 7 - Plurals (2)
      • 8 - Pronouns (nominative)
      • 9 - Pronouns (object & dative)
      • 10 - Colours & Soft mutation introduction
    • Lessons 11-20 >
      • 11 - Soft mutation
      • 12 - Using adjectives & adverbs
      • 13 - Prepositions
      • 14 - Prefixes
      • 15 - Nasal mutation
      • 16 - Pronouns (possessive)
      • 17 - Verbs (Present Tense)
      • 18 - Verbs (Past Tense)
      • 19 - Verbs (Intransitive endings and irregulars)
      • 20 - Verbs (Future Tense)
    • Lessons 21-30 >
      • 21 - Verbs (Conditional)
      • 22 - Irregular verbs
      • 23 - Verbs (Dual)
      • 24 - Sentence structure
      • 25 - Negation
      • 26 - 'To be'
      • 27 - Relative pronouns and uncertainty
      • 28 - Timekeeping
      • 29 - Numbers & Mathematics
      • 30 - Mixed mutation
    • Lessons 31-40 >
      • 31 - Plurals (3): Class plurals
      • 32 - Possessive, singular and diminutive suffixes
      • 33 - Comparatives & Superlatives
      • 34 - Abstract Suffix
      • 35 - Further suffixes
      • 36 - How to make names (1)
      • 37 - How to make names (2)
      • 38 - Gondorian & Mirkwood Sindarin
      • 39 - Doriathrin Sindarin
      • 40 - Liquid and Stop mutations
    • Lessons 41 onwards >
      • 41 - Elision
  • Resources
    • Mutation chart
    • Pronoun chart
    • (m)b words
    • (n)d words
    • (n)g words
    • -ath
    • Jigsaws
    • Grammatical terms
    • Language of the hands