tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 02 19:42:51 1995
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Re: Gerundives
On Fri, 2 Jun 1995 [email protected] wrote:
> Reading makes me tired.
>
> How do we get the gerundive "reading" from the verb "reads" in Klingon using
> the root "laD"?
Klingon forms nouns from verbal roots by using {-ghach}. Thus "reading",
when used as a noun, could be translated as {laDtaHghach} (the ongoing
process of reading). You could say {muDoy'choHmoH laDtaHghach} or
{laDtaHghachwIjmo' jIDoy'}.
Note that Okrand has not completely described all the uses and
limitations of {-ghach}. We do know that it commonly is not used with a
bare verb stem but it can be used in conjunction with Type 7 (aspective)
verb suffixes. (HolQeD 3.3)
Also note that just because a process or activity is expressed as a noun
in English does not mean that the same idea is a noun in Klingon.
Klingon predominantly prefers uses verbs to describe a process rather
than using a noun to name that same process. Thus you could also (and
perhaps preferably) say: jIlaDtaHmo' jIDoy'.
yoDtargh