tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 07 00:52:01 1998
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Re: KLBC - 'egh v -chuq
- From: "Andeen, Eric" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC - 'egh v -chuq
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 00:51:21 -0700
- Importance: Normal
lab qe'San:
> On re-reading TKD I noticed that {-'egh} applies to singular
> subject and {-chuq} to plural subject but what if I have a
> plural but each was acting singularly.
> For example how do I differentiate between 'They hit themselves'
> (as in they they were only hitting themselves and not others in
> their location) and 'They hit each other' (as in they were hitting
> others around them but not themselves)?
There's no reason you can't use <-'egh> with a plural subject. In that case,
each member of the group does something to himself, or maybe the group as a
whole does something to itself.
<-chuq> can only be used with a plural subject, and it means that the
members of the group do something to each other.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian