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Re: {ghung} and {'oj} as stative verbs?

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: {ghung} and {'oj} as stative verbs?
• Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:18:16 EST

In a message dated 2/27/2006 8:38:17 PM Central Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> On Feb 27, 2006, at 4:29 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> 
> > ... I thought at first that Klingon
> > uses a verb "jIghung"...
> 
> You indeed should think this, because that's exactly what TKD says it  
> does.
> 
> > ...but then I considered whether it might be the
> > same construction as English, since predicate adjectives work like
> > verbs in Klingon, so {jIghung} might well be "I am hungry" rather than
> > "I hunger".
> 

Philip,
Can you give the translation of {ghung} from the German TKD?

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