tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 09 23:24:32 1998
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Re: {-meH} and its useage
'eQ asked:
>>I just wondered how it would look like if a {-meH} phrase would modify a
>>verb, especially if both the {-meH} phrase *and* the other verb has both
>>subject and object.
Voragh explains:
>>HIq DaSammeH tach yI'el
>> To find ale, go into a bar. TKW
>>
>>[...and other examples...]
ghunchu'wI' answers:
>There's the answer. While the clause with {-meH} must always precede
>what it modifies, it doesn't have to *immediately* precede it. In these
>examples, it comes before the object of the sentence as well as the verb.
Isn't there a risk that one mixes up the subject of the {-meH} verb and
the object of the following verb, with a noun-noun construction?
/'eQ
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