tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 09 15:18:08 1997
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RE: more on -moH qororvo'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: more on -moH qororvo'
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 97 23:13:32 UT
jatlh qoror:
> qoror here. In your response to my accompanyment to the second sentence,
let me
> explain. I know that "be honored" is passive in English, but in Klingon,
"quv"
> is passive without "-lu'." It's sort of like the Klingon verb/adjectives.
You
> see, the meaning of "quv" in the second sentence hasn't changed from passive
to
> active or from active to passive, so that's why I called it active.
*Meanings* aren't active or passive, how you say them is. Klingon simply
doesn't have this distinction.
jIqet
I run.
jIQong
I sleep.
jIquv
I am honored.
I experience the state of being honored.
I possess the quality of being honored.
You're getting hung up on the English translation, not the Klingon.
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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