Stop

How to translate to stop

Find a different way to express the same sentiment. Here are several ideas. See also Done and Finish.

There are three different ways to negate something:

• nu, not/don't

• dar, no longer (something was once done in the past, but is not currently being done)

• draar, never (something is not done now or in the future)

Ke'nu is the command particle put at the beginning of a sentence to mean "don't do (some action)" or "stop doing (some action)."

Some verbs you could negate to express what you want stopped:

• atiniir, to endure

• baatir, to care, to worry about

• ba'slanar, to leave

• duumir, to permit

• kebbur, to try

• slanar, to go

• narir, to act (as in "to take action")

• tal'onidir, to make an all-out effort (idiom)

• taylir, to hold

• vaabir, to do

• vencuyanir, to keep alive, to preserve

Kyr ge'kaan is used to indicate the end of a military training exercise; by civilians, it might be used to indicate the end point of a large project. It's a noun; based on my analysis of published examples of commands, ke kyr ge'kaan would be a way to give a command/directive to stop the exercise or stop working on the project.

These other options can express the same sentiment but in a different way.

• Gev is a casual command that means (to add explanation to the given definition): "this task is done; clean up the area and prepare to move to a new task."

• Go'naasir balace would be "to squander opportunities."

• Trattok'or is "to fail, to fall, to collapse." 

• Ara'novor is "to defend, to obstruct." N'aranovor is "to not defend, to not obstruct." Dar ara'novor is "to no longer defend, to no longer obstruct."

• Arasuumir is "to stagnate."

• Kyr is "end" (the noun). Ibic kyr is "this is the end."

• Ani is "total, complete" (the adjective). Ibic ani is "this is complete."

• Ganar naasad bralove/parjaise is "to not have any successes/victories."

Example ways of telling someone to stop

• Ke'nu vaabi is the most generic version of "don't do (it)."

• Ke'nu nari is "don't act" or "don't carry out (a task)."

• Ke'nu jare'la is equivalent to "don't act stupidly" or "don't do something dangerous" (specifically "don't be stupidly oblivious to danger").

• Ke'nu kebbu is "don't try (it)," equivalent to "don't even think about it." That would be always be said preemptively.

• Ne'nar! is equivalent to saying "Don't act!
  (Inspired in construction by Nar dral'shya!, try harder, and Ne'johaa, shut up.)

• Ulyc! can be used for quick admonishment to "be careful."

• K'ulyc is used for a stronger demand for action.

• Gev is equivalent saying "stop and do something different" (as opposed to "stop and do nothing").

• Ke pare is a command to wait or to pause what the one being commanded is doing.

• Add ke'nu in front of a conjugated verb to say "don't do [verb]"; for example, ke'nu viini for "don't run."