tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 26 20:03:43 1996
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Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:05:51 -0500
Thiago Miranda writes:
>~mark writes:
>>..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 tim
>>under discussion
>
>Why not using {-ta'} on the verb, i.e. the action of dying is over
>(accomplished)?
{-ta'} "...is used when an activity was deliberately undertaken, the
implication being that someone set out to do something and in fact
did it." (TKD 4.2.7) That's not the case here, so {-pu'} is right.
-- ghunchu'wI' batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj