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Re: lum tlhInganpu'



At 09:08 97-12-16 -0800, edy wrote:

}laj - accept
qar.

}lajmoH - cause to accept
qar.

}laj'eghmoH - obligate

Qov looks up "obligate" ... "bind person (legally or morally) to do".  Ok,
same as oblige.  Not a verb I use much in English.

No.  Doesn't mean that.  Means "cause to accept oneself."

The catastrophe obligates you to fix the device.  janvaD DutI'nISmoH lot.

You are obligated to be present.  bISaH net poQ

That the sort of thing you meant?



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