tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 07 20:33:16 1998
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Re: KLBC: Some questions
ja' Edy:
>yIlegh'egh - See yourself, but it could mean "see by yourself"?
{yIlegh'egh} is fine for "see yourself." I'm not sure exactly what
you mean by "see by yourself". {nIteb} means "alone, acting alone".
Does {nIteb yIlegh} "see without assistance" say what you want?
>or I have to say: yIlegh'eghmoH.
This is "Cause yourself to see." I don't think it means the same
thing as "see by yourself."
>How can I say: 3 hours ago I was in my room?
>wejrep qaSpu'DI' pa'wIjDaq jIHpu' (?)
{wej rep} is two words, and as the subject of {qaSpu'DI'} it must come
after the verb: {qaSpu'DI' wej rep}. Even after that correction, what
I get from your sentence is "After three hours, I had been in my room."
You want to say that you were in the room before three hours happened.
{DaH rIn wej rep. taghpa' poHvetlh pa'wIjDaq jIHtaH.}
"Now three hours are over. I was in my room before that time began."
>Another doubt here: yabraj vIlaDlaH (I can read the mind of you all)
>or yabmeyraj vIlaDlaH (I can read your minds) .
Both of these are grammatically correct. Don't forget that the lack of
a plural suffix doesn't automatically mean that something is singular.
{yabraj} can mean "your minds", and indeed *must* mean that if something
else (such as a verb prefix) indicates that it's plural. For example,
{yabraj DIlaDlaH} can only mean "We can read your minds."
I'm not sure I answered your doubt completely. If you don't understand
something, let me know.
-- ghunchu'wI'