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Re: KLBC: {-'a'}



At 09:58 AM 9/5/97 -0700, muHwI' wrote:
>{muHwI' 'oH pongwIj'e'}
>My name is muHwI'.
>
>If I want to make a yes-no question from 
>a to-be-construction sentence, which word 
>gets the interrogative suffix {-'a'} ?

The pronoun.  {verengan ghaH'a' mangvetlh'e'?} "Is that soldier a Ferengi?"

>{thlIngan SoH'a'}
>(I think I've heard that somewhere.)

See section 6.3: the pronoun in this type of construction is acting as a
verb, so it takes any necessary verbal suffixes.

Qov  ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian
<qagh joy'>: rut qagh DaneH; rut DaneHbe' - majawtaHvIS Qanqor jIH je



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