tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 03 11:06:26 1996
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Re: the casual use of {nuqneH}
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: the casual use of {nuqneH}
- Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 21:06:05 +0100
>Your idea is okay, but your grammar is faulty (and the ellipses should be
>placed at the beginning of the Klingon sentences, not the end).
>{qaneH} is "I want you," not "I want you [to do something]."
>{jIneH} is simply "I want," not "I want [something]."
>In both of these cases, the prefix should be {vI-}:
The reason I wrote {jI-} in the second sentence, instead of {vI-}, was
because I hadn't defind the object.
>{cholegh vIneH} "I want you to see me." Note: {neH} is the only verb that
>doesn't use {'e'} as its object in a construction like this (TKD 6.2.5).
>{HuchlIj vIneH} "I want your money."
Wouldn't it be {qa-} in the first sentence or is it because "...to see me."
is the object instead of "you"?