tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 17 00:19:29 1997
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Re: KLBC Challenge: similar suffixes
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC Challenge: similar suffixes
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:19:12 -0800
At 15:44 97-12-15 -0800, Dawut wrote:
}{-'a'}
}ghoj'a' ghom'a'? "Is the crowd learning?"
You're asking about an ongoing proces, so I would recommend {-taH} or {-lI')
to match your English translation. Your sentence says "did the crowd
learn?" "does the crowd learn?" or "will the crowd learn." Dayaj'a'?
}{-lI'}
}qatlh bomqa'lI' SoSlI' chuS. "Why is your noisy mother chanting
}again?."
Use {-lI'} when the ongoing process described has a definite conclusion.
Use {-taH} when the continuity and not the progress towards completion is
important.
I'd read this as "why is your noisy mother chanting it again?" letting the
{-lI'} imply that there is some particular non-perpetual chant that she is
chanting.
}{-mo'}
}maghoj juqaDmo' 'ej Sach Sovmaj qaDmeylIjmo'.
}"We learn because you challenge us, and due your challenges our
}knowledge expands."
Read the end of section 6.1. Any noun in the sentence not acting as subject
or object precedes the main clause. Thus {qaDmeylIjmo' Sach Sovmaj}. There
isn't a rule to cite for the verb ending {-mo'}, but one of the grammarians
argues that verb + {-mo'} should be treated as the noun and go before the
main clause, too. You probably would rearrange it for symmetry in any case.
}{-pu'}
}HoHpu' tlhInganpu' 'e' vIlegh. "I see that the Klingons have killed
}them."
maj.
}{-wI'}
}wIjwI' ghaHbe' vavwI''e'. "My father is not a farmer."
maj.
}juqaDmo' qatlho'. batlh bIghojmoH. tlhIngan SoHbej!
choHemmoH. popwIj chaH jatlhwI'pu' chu''e'.
Qov [email protected]
Beginners' Grammarian