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Re: KLBC: -chuq and Object?



At 22:28 97-12-09 -0800, peHruS wrote:
}In a message dated 97-12-08 14:35:50 EST, HovqIj writes:
}
}<< 
} In 4.2.1 TKD tells us to use the no-object-prefix when a verb has the suffix 
} {-chuq}. But what do I say when a verb requires two objects (here: "each
}other" 
} and "the story")? 
} Can I just say: lut wIja'chuq   ?
} Or maybe I need a relative clause: maja'chuqbogh 'oH lut'e' (The story is,
}what 
} we told each other)   ?
} Or is it something completely different?
}  >>
}
}---------------------------------------peHruS-------------------------
}maja'chuqtaHvIS lut wIja'

This doesn't escape the problem that we do not know that the thing told can
be an object of {ja'}. 

Qov     [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian                 



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