tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 15 08:26:47 1997
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RE: KLBC: imperatives
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: imperatives
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 97 15:26:18 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> May a verb in imperative have a subject?
The answer to this question is yes. An imperative may have {SoH} or {tlhIH}
as the subject.
> e.g., to say "Worf, close this door", which one is the best way :
> {lojmItvam yISoQmoH wo'rIv} with {wo'rIv} as a subject, or
> {wo'rIv, lojmItvam yISoQmoH} with a "vocative"?
In the first sentence, {wo'rIv} is not the subject. The subject is {SoH}. In
both of these sentences, {wo'rIv} is used in direct address. See TKD section
5.6
> How should I express imperative in the third person? "let him go in" :
> { 'el ghaH vIneH} ?
You can use the verb {chaw'} "permit."
'el ghaH 'e' yIchaw'.
Let him go in.
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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