tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 20 15:07:57 1998
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Re: KBLC: adjectives
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KBLC: adjectives
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:07:09 -0800
At 07:02 98-01-12 -0800, Ken wrote:
}I think I'm alittle confussed.
}
}I thought adjectives where verbs
Yes. Klingon doesn't have separate adjectives, just a special way of using
verbs.
}but could be other nouns
No, you're confusing two concepts. A noun can modify another noun, as in
{targh nuj} "the targ's mouth" or "the mouth of the targ" but that isn't an
adjective, that's a noun-noun construct.
}and followed the
}noun that it describes.
Yes. {targh Quch} "a happy targ"
}But I continually see things that are *adjective
}noun* rather that *noun adjective*
Like {Quch targh} ?
}Am I missing something. And yes of course rather than writing this when I
}was looking at it. I waited and no longer have any examples. oops.....
An excellent question. I wish more people would ask questions like this.
It shows that you've figured out one thing about the language enough to
notice something else that doesn't fit yet.
{Quch} as a verb means "be happy."
{targh Quch} means "a happy targh"
{Quch targh} means "the targh is happy"
{Doy' targh Quch} "the happy targh is tired"
{Quch targh Doy'} "the tired targh is happy"
If the verb is the actual verb of the sentence, then it goes before the
subject. If the verb is acting as an adjective, it follows the noun it
modifies.
Read over section 3.4 and 4.4 in TKD and then follow up with some practice
sentences using what you've learned, or any questions you have about it.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian