tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 11 13:57:43 1996
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RE: KLBC: serving a ship
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: serving a ship
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 21:34:46 UT
December 10, 1996 8:40 PM, jatlh SuSvaj:
> As for how to say that you were an
> engineer on the QeHjo', I would suggest:
>
> QeHjo'Daq jItoy'DI' jonwI' jIH
> (When I served on the QeHjo', I was an engineer.)
This means "As soon as I served aboard the {QeHjo'}, I was the engineer." The
"as soon as" doesn't really work for me. {-taHvIS} works: {<QeHjo'>Daq
jItoy'taHvIS, jonwI' jIH}.
> On the other hand I am not sure if the verb toy' is necessarily transitive
> or not, so it might be safer to say:
>
> QeHjo' vItoy'DI' jonwI' jIH
> (When I served the QeHjo', I was an engineer.)
Er, your first sentence was intransitive, and the second is transitive. If
it's got an object, it's transitive.
{toy'} can be used transitively. TKW p. 74: {wo' toy'taHvIS Hegh 'e' tul Hoch
tlhIngan} "To die while serving the Empire is the hope of every Klingon."
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