tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Feb 22 20:41:17 2003
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Re: KLBC:{ben}
[email protected] writes:
> How would one say something like "When he will have been born 16 years ago,
> he can get his drivers' license."?
> Would putting /wa'maH jav ben/ in there put the whole sentence in the past,
> or just the birth, relative to the implied future time frame?
>
> */wa'maH jav ben bogh(pu')DI', Duj chIj net chaw'./
> *"When he has been born 16 yrs ago, he will be allowed to drive."
> *"When he was born 16 yrs ago, he was allowed to drive" (as an infant)
>
> With time stamps functioning the way we know them, how do we specify a
> future age?
>
wa'maH jav DIS yInta'DI', ghIq Duj chIj net chaw' ?
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