tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 25 19:38:26 1998
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Re: KLBC: tlhIHvaD jIlIH'egh
ja' qeyyoH 'elISabetlh:
>wej be' moj puqbe'vam...
>...
>This girl has not yet become a woman...
A {puqbe'} "daughter" is already a {be'} "woman, female". I don't think
{be'} implies maturity the way the English "woman" does. The word {nen}
"be adult, be mature" probably carries the desired idea here.
{wej nen be'Homvam} "This girl is not yet grown up." Or maybe use the
phrase {be' nen} "mature female" the way TKW page 177 used {loD nen} to
refer to an adult "man".
-- ghunchu'wI'