tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 11 17:20:22 1996
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Re: how?
- From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
- Subject: Re: how?
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:22:33 -0500
ghItlh SuStel:
>tIn Duj. "meter" 'ar?
>
>At first I thought to add {'oH} to the end of this, to make the second
>sentence complete, but then I realized that something cannot *be* a meter
>(unless it is a stick with little black lines on it, etc.) Unfortunately,
>the whole problem is that there are no verbs for "measure" or "be a length,"
>so I couldn't express it this way.
yInejqa' -- <juv> vIleghbej. mu'tlhegh law' vI'oghlaH:
He juvlu'chugh qelI'qam 'ar tu'lu'?
He juvlu'meH qelI'qam 'ar poQlu'?
He juvlu'DI' qelI'qam 'ar toghlu'pu'?
He juvlu'taHvIS qelI'qam 'ar lo'nISlu'?
chaq Doch juvlu'be'. chaq juv Doch:
qelI'qam 'ar juv He?
SKI: The verb <juv> means "measure". There are several ways to use it.
-- ghunchu'wI'