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Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 289

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: TLHINGAN-HOL digest 289
• Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 23:24:26 -0500

Jarno Peschier writes:
>...wej Dochvetlh vISovbe'; pongmeyvetlh vIleghbe'pu'...

{wej} means either "three" or "not yet".  The prefix {vI-} doesn't
help me to resolve the ambiguity; it applies to both singular and
plural objects.  Because you used {-be'} on the verb, I'm inclined
to translate it as "three".  I don't think that's what you intended,
though.  If you mean "I don't know that thing yet," then I think you
need to drop the {-be'} to say "I do not yet know that thing."

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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