tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 18 13:19:23 1995
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Re: Odd sentence in phrase book
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 21:17:56 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
>Matt Treyvaud writes:
>>On to the next question. I don't have my TKD right here with me, but I
>>was reading it last night and I'm pretty sure I remember the sentence 'I
>>wasn't there' translated as {pa'Daq jIHpu'be'}. And isn't the be' in the
>>wrong spot? It says that it follows the concept being negated in the
>>'Verbs' section; I would have thought the concept being negated here is
>>'I am' rather than 'perfective'. What's going on here?
>TKD page 172: "I wasn't there." {pa' jIHpu'be'}
See also "vIta'pu'be'" on CK and I think in TKD.
~mark