tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 31 17:27:07 1997
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RE: thrusters, etc.
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: thrusters, etc.
- Date: Fri, 30 May 97 22:03:22 UT
jatlh SuSvaj:
> qeqnIS taghwI'pu'! wa'DIch mu'tlheghvam Damugh 'e' DanIDta', qalughmoH.
>
> As a beginner, you must practice! Try and translate it yourself first.
> Then I'll correct you if necessary.
Er . . . perhaps you'd both better visit KLBC! :)
{wa'DIch} always follows a noun. It's an ordinal, and cannot be used to say
you do something before something (or everything) else. For that, you use
{-pa'}.
qalughmoHpa' mu'tlheghvam Damugh 'e' yInID.
Before I correct you, try to translate this sentence.
Also, you placed {-ta'} on {nID}, the second verb of a Sentence As Object.
That's a no-no. You must place it on the first verb, or not at all. (Putting
{-ta'} on {mugh} wouldn't be so bad. Remember, {-ta'} tells that something
has been completed, but doesn't say whether that something happened in the
past, present, or future. There's no tense. So, {Damughta'} could easily
mean "you will have translated it.")
--
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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