tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 02 12:05:01 1997
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Re: "-lu'"
- From: Daniel Noll <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "-lu'"
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 07:04:53 +1000
At 08:17 02/03/97 -0800, qoror wrote:
> I'd like to know: where should you put the main noun in a passive sentence
> with "-lu'"?
[...]
The "main verb" in this situation is the object (as the subject is
indefinite or unknown), and thus to be correct it should appear before
the verb.
> In English, it is considered the subject, and in Latin, it is in the
> nominative, which is almost always the subject. (In the rare other
> usages, it is the appositive.) But I've noticed in jatmey and other
> sources (but no canonical ones) that it is sometimes put at the beginning
> of the sentence.
And in TKD: naDev puqpu' tu'tu' (someone finds children here)
Or, "There are children here"
> It is called the subject (in English) because you need
> to have a subject and a verb to make a whole sentence. Sometimes the
> subject is implied, such as imperative sentences, and that would exception
> would have to work more with Klingon. But how does Klingon work with the
> passive voice?
In English the subject is someone/something and it is implied the same
way "you" is in the imperative, such as the first translation above.
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