tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 26 17:39:35 1996
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Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch
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- Subject: Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:39:04 -0500
~mark writes:
>Not completely. "Hegh yIHlIj" means
>"your tribble dies" or "your tribble
>died" or "your tribble will die." To get
>"your tribble is dead," you need
>something more like "your tribble has died"
> which is "Heghpu' yIHlIj." The
>-pu' suffix indicates perfective aspect,
>meaning that the action (in this
>case, the dying) has finished taking place
> by the time under discussion
Why not using {-ta'} on the verb, i.e. the action of dying is over
(accomplished)?
Qapla'
-Thiago Miranda