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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Beginners Grammar

Fiat Knox ([email protected])



<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_8663"><span>Hi.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_8879" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_10791" dir="ltr">The <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_10798">-'a'</b> Type 9 interrogative verb suffix is only used with the sort of closed questions which require an answer like "yes" or "no."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_9397" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_9396" dir="ltr">For open questions such as <i>when?</i>, <i>where?</i>, <i>who?</i>, <i>what?</i>, <i>how?</i> and, particularly, <i>why?</i>, just use the question word <b>qatlh</b> in front of your sentence.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_9804" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_10260" dir="ltr">So the correct phrasing of the question is {<b>qatlh bISaQ</b>}. <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_10261">bISaQ'a'</b> would be <i id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417256499219_10265">Are you crying?</i><br></div><br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Saturday, 29 November 2014, 6:24, Maxim Sonin &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">  <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3240040883"><div dir="ltr">I was trying to translated the phrase "Why do you cry?" into klingon and found that I don't know how.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Should it be "qatlh bISaQ"<br>
or "qatlh bISaQ'a'"?</div>
<div dir="ltr">Or some different way?</div>
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