tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 30 21:37:23 1996
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RE: KLBC: INDIRECT OBJECT RELATED
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: INDIRECT OBJECT RELATED
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 96 05:18:09 UT
December 30, 1996 8:11 PM, jatlh Edy Fonseca:
> I want to say: "You need speak klingon with him"
> "tlhingan Hol DajatlhnIS" is correct? And about "tlhIngan Hol ghaHvaD
> bIjatlhnIS". Problems with direct and indirect object.
{tlhIngan Hol DajatlhnIS} is "You need to speak Klingon." To get the "with
him" part, you use {-vaD} (as you do later), to indicate that "he" is the
beneficiary of your act of speaking Klingon. {-vaD} always comes before the
object noun, or before the verb if there is no object noun. {ghaHvaD tlhIngan
Hol DajatlhnIS}.
You almost had it in your second sentence, but for two problems. First, you
put the {-vaD} noun *after* the object, and not before, and second, you used
the wrong prefix. Since the object, {tlhIngan Hol} qualifies as an "it," you
need to keep the {Da-} suffix.
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SuStel
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