tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 01 18:37:09 2002
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Re: lengwIj
From: "Aryeh ben Naphtali" <[email protected]>
> ?? "EuropaDaq vIleng" must be "I travel IN Europe, across Europe". Can
> "EuropavaD" be used in the sense "TO Europe"? Or is it English interfering
> again with its "FOR Europe"?
The object of /leng/ is the destination you are traveling to. The following
two sentences mean exactly the same thing:
EuropeDaq vIleng.
Europe vIleng.
They both mean "I travel to Europe." Putting /-Daq/ on the object is
optional.
If you're talking about traveling inside an area, that area is not your
destination, so it's not the object:
EuropeDaq jIleng.
I travel in Europe.
Here, you've got the sentence /jIleng/ "I travel," which doesn't state your
destination (no object). Then you're telling me where you do this
(EuropeDaq, "In Europe").
The suffix /-vaD/ is only used to indicate the beneficiary of an action, not
a location. It means "whatever the verb is, it was done for this noun."
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