tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Mar 29 05:08:59 2001
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Re: Patience makes perfect
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Patience makes perfect
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 05:09:57 -0800
lab pagh-le'
As the KLBC has been removed from the subject line, I'm going to repond to
the grammar in thi in case taD misses it.
>> Using beginner sentences alone, you can recognizably describe a whole
>> episode. It *IS* harder to describe things we don't have words for. So
>> don't start with that. You will enjoy more success if you start with an
>> easier task.
>
>toH! jIyaj.
maj. QaQ pab. bIyajmo' QaQ je.
[Good. The grammar is good. It's also good that you understand.]
>mu'mey vISov 'e' puS.
The word 'e' makes the "sentence-as-object" construction. Whatever you put
before the 'e' has to be the direct object of the verb you put after it.
The verb /puS/ means "be few" or "sight (with gunsight)". So /mu'mey vISov
'e' puS/ means either "He draws a bead that I know the words" or "He fews
that I know the words," neither of which makes any sense.
I think you intended to say "I know a few of the words" or maybe "I know
few words."
mu'mey puS (See TKD 4.4) = "few words"
Try:
mu'mey puS vISov - I know few words.
mu'meyvetlh puS vISov - I know a few of those words.
Qov