tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Nov 26 21:12:03 2011
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] how to use {nej}?
jatlh De'vID:
> How would I say, "Search for the targ in the forest", or "Search for
> the record in the data banks"? I presume the thing being searched for
> ({targh}, {ta}) is the object of {nej}, but how do I indicate the
> parameters of/restrictions on the search ({ngem}, {qawHaq})?
jang quljIb:
> I would break them into two separate sentences. {ngemDaq 'oH targh. yIwam!}
ngemDaq 'oH targh*'e'*.
(Personally I'd say it with {'oHtaH}, since most of the locative pronoun-as-
verb constructs in canon have -taH, but that's just my idiom and YMMV.)
QeS 'utlh
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