tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 26 18:54:22 2009
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Re: nuq bach?
qa'vaj wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I agree. Nothing tells us that {bachchu'} means "shoot and hit," and
>> nothing tells us that the kind of object the verb takes will change with
>> the addition of the suffix. It could just mean "shoot with perfect form."
>>
>> nuq qIp yaS?
>> What did the officer hit?
>>
> Looking over the thread, I'm surprised that {-vaD} hasn't been mentioned.
>
> HeSwI'vaD bach yaS. qIp.
>
> "The officer shot at a criminal and hit him."
>
> Which has a slightly different connotation from:
>
> bach yaS. HeSwI' qIp.
>
> "The officer shot. He hit a criminal."
>
> The former being a little clearer that it was the criminal he was intending
> to hit when he shot.
{-vaD} indicates a beneficiary, not a target. {HeSwI'vaD bach yaS} means
"The officer shot (something) for the criminal."
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