tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 12 05:23:14 1996
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Re: Stating the subject and verb prefixes; use of KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Stating the subject and verb prefixes; use of KLBC
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 08:09:14 EST
Eric Yarnell writes:
>For example, would
> puq legh jIH
>be correct, or must it be
> puq vIlegh jIH
If you mean "I see the child" you do need to use the {-vI} prefix.
Except for verbs used to modify nouns adjectivally (TKD 4.4?), and
maybe those used in noun-modifying "purpose clauses", we always need
to use the appropriate prefix. One of the prefixes is "empty"; it's
the one represented by "0" on the prefix chart (TKD page 32?).
The null prefix on your first sentence indicates third-person subject,
and there is an apparently singular third-person object, so the best
grammatical interpretation is "The monitor sees the child." :-) This
sounds like a security camera in a nursery...it's not a bad sentence,
but it's not the same thing as {puq vIlegh}.
-- ghunchu'wI'