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

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: {ghung} and {'oj} as stative verbs?
• Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:10:48 -0600
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Philip:
> >> 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".

lay'tel SIvten:
>Can you give the translation of {ghung} from the German TKD?

It's "hungrig (sein)" in the online glossary to _Das offizielle Wörterbuch_ 
(the 1996 German translation of TKD) at

http://www.iamexwi.unibe.ch/studenten/seeberge/klingonisch/wortschatz_kl.html




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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