tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 19 01:32:41 1997
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Adverbials
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- Subject: Adverbials
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 04:32:09 -0400 (EDT)
While I am anxious to learn new words of any part of speech, I hope SuStel is
right in betting we will soon get more Adverbs.
Meanwhile, how do we express adverbially concepts for which we do not have a
specifically glossed adverb.
Assume we want to say, "A group of warriors must fight together." We get
{SuvDI' SuvwI' ghom tay'nIS chaH}. We have not used an adverb at all;
rather, we have reconstructed the phrasing to use a main verb with a relative
clause.
{roD} vs. {motlh}
We have had enough examples of {motlh} and {motlhbe'} to know their
translations are "usually" and "unusually," respectively. Although we have
had only one example that I have ever seen of {roD}, I suspect it translates
as "normally." Since the translation given by MO for {roD} was "usually," I
cannot disagree with it. I was only looking for the difference in feeling
between the two words. I will need to see MO use {roD} again to get a better
feeling of its true meaning.
Qapla' tugh wotmey Delbogh mu'mey chu' DISuq 'e' vItul jIH je
peHruS