tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 16 19:54:51 1996
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RE: KLBC
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 96 02:53:49 UT
December 16, 1996 4:34 AM, jatlh loDDoq:
> Thanks for helping.
qay'be'.
> I'm reading section 6 now and have some questions:
> I understand that the structure is:
> OBJ-VERB-SUBJ
> and any nounthat is not the objet goes before all that.
> So if I want to say "I'm living on a house" I should say "planet living I'm"
> OBJ VERB
SUBJ
"House"? You mean "planet"?
> So I'll say: *yuQ jIyIn jIH* or just *yuQ jIyIn*,right?
> I'm not sure if should say *jIyIn* or *vIyIn*.
You're very close! Whenever you are talking about a spacial concept, such as
"in" or "to" or "on," you probably need the {-Daq} noun suffix. This suffix
means the action occurs "in" or "to" or "at" or "on" the noun to which it is
attached. Therefore, you must say
yuQDaq jIyIn.
I live on the planet.
Now, since any noun with {-Daq} on it is not going to be the object, and
therefore comes before the rest of the sentence, you must use the prefix which
means "no object." This is {jI-}, as I've used it above.
> and if I want to say "I'm living on a big planet" :
> I'm not sure if to say *tIn yuQ jIyIn jIH* or *yuQ tIn jIyIn
jIH*
Your second attempt is closer. When you use a verb as an adjective (to
describe something; any verb which begins with "be --"), it always comes
*after* the noun it's describing.
You need to add the {-Daq} again. However, there's a funny little rule on TKD
page 50 which says that Type 5 noun suffixes must be attached to the adjective
of a noun, if it has one, not the noun itself.
yuQ tInDaq yIyIn.
Of course, the {jIH} is optional, and merely stresses the subject.
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