tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 29 16:14:29 1996

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Re: (KLBC) Re: tlhIngan Hol chu' ghojwI'. jIH ghaj pung.

trI'Qal writes:
>If you wanted to really emphasize the fact that you were enemies, as you
>seemed to be trying to do with -qu', you could say:
>
>        jaghpu'na' maH.
>        "We are defintely enemies."

It's hard to tell with the minor misspelling, but it looks like trI'Qal
is giving an adverbial translation for the noun suffix {-na'}.  While it
doesn't change the basic meaning of this sentence, it would probably be
more correct to translate it adjectivally: "We are definite enemies."
Noun suffixes modify nouns the way adjectives do; they do not modify verbs
the way adverbs do.

Aside from this glitch (and the occasional misspelled word), trI'Qal has
done a very good job of responding to this beginner.  batlh bIcheghta'!

-- ghunchu'wI'

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