tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 25 11:38:28 2003
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RE: RE: KLBC prayer (from the HovpoH subthread)
- From: "DloraH" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: RE: KLBC prayer (from the HovpoH subthread)
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 12:44:47 -0500
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> > > > > yuch lo'lu'taHvIS chenmoHlu'bogh vay'! }}:D
> > > >
> > > > -lu' on chenmoH implies indefinite subject, but then you give
> > > > vay' as the subject.
> > > >
> > > I was trying for "Anything which one creates while while one uses
> > > chocolate".
> >
> > Object-Verb-Subject
> >
> Got that, but what I wanted to know was how to write a relative
> clause that
> modifies a noun, with the relative clause having the indefinite subject.
> (Maybe I should have stuck with {yuch ngaSbogh vay'})
You're close. You just need to fix the word order of the -bogh phrase. Is
/vay'/ the subject or object of /chenmoH/? Is it doing the creating, or is
it being created?
DloraH