tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 28 04:44:02 1995
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Re: KLBC: Present tense of verbs
"R.B Franklin" <[email protected]> writes:
\ As you can see {jIjatlh} does not change. It is the same regardless of
\ whether it is being used in the past, the present or the future.
\
\ The verb {jalth} can also mean "say".
\
\ wa'leS bImuj jIjatlh. Tomorrow, I will say/I will be saying that you are
\ wrong. (Literally: Tomorrow, I say, "You are wrong".)
\ DaHjaj bImuj jIjatlh. Today, I say/I am saying that you are wrong.
\ wa'Hu' bImuj jIatlh. Yesterday, I said/I was saying that you were wrong.
The prefix in the above examples should be "vI-" (vIjatlh), qar'a'?
-marqoS
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