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Re: KLBC: nominalizing a verb with object



David Trimboli wrote:
> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:

> > I can't derive
> > some-
> > thing like {mI'QeDwI' jIH} since {mI'QeD} is a noun. Have I got to say
> > something
> > like {mI'QeD vIHaD}, which could mean I'm a student instead of a searcher?
> 
> Well, you could say {mI'QeD ghojmoHwI' jIH} "I am a number-science teacher."  
> But you wouldn't want to say {mI'QeD jIH}, because this means "I am 
> mathematics."
> 
> Another possibility: {mI'QeD tej jIH}.

     Or {mI'tej}?

wIvqu', law'wI'pu'vaD Holtej jIH
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