tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 19 06:20:40 1996
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RE: KLBC
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: RE: KLBC
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 96 09:10:14 EST
ja' SuStel:
>> yejquv DewI' gowron.
>If this was to be "Gowron is the leader of the High Council," you're not too
>far off. This is a "to be" sentence, as explained in TKD section 6.3.
>(You've also misspelled {ghawran} and {DevwI'}.
>yejquv DevwI' ghaH ghawran'e'.
When I see a sentence of the form {[verb]-wI' ghaH}, it usually seems
simpler to just use the verb as a verb.
yejquv Dev ghawran.
Occasionally the {[verb]-wI'} phrasing is more appropriate, as when
you're trying to identify someone as a member of a group. For example,
{ghojwI' SoH} "you are a student" and {bIghoj} "you learn" aren't quite
the same idea, though literally "you are a learner" and "you learn" do
have very similar meanings.
-- ghunchu'wI'