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Re: KLBC: Hab SoSlI' Quch



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




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