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RE: too hot ?

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: too hot ?
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 97 00:54:57 UT

jatlh QeylIS:

> i know this has been a topic of conversation before but i was wondering is
> there any way to say "too" something, like "too hot" or "too fast" etc.?

Marc Okrand has often emphasized the verb to indicate that something is "too 
much."  To emphasize a verb, add {qu'} to it.

jIQong.
I sleep.

jIQongqu'.
I *SLEEP*.  (If someone said this to you with this emphasis, you'd suppose 
that there was an excess of sleeping, right?)

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97237.6

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