tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 28 18:41:40 1999
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RE: KLBC Another simple one.
ja' Banks Sgt Christopher J <[email protected]>:
>You have angered me.
> jIH tuQeH...something. Past tense. How is past tense expressed? I
>know I've seen it before, but I can't seem to find it now. Was I even close?
You've heard by now that Klingon does *not* express past tense, which is
why you can't find out how to do it. :-) However, your English phrase
isn't in past tense anyway. It's a "present perfect" idea, which quite
neatly fits the meaning of the Type 7 verb suffix {-pu'}.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh