tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Sep 21 12:23:42 1997
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Re: yIjey'lu'
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: yIjey'lu'
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 97 19:21:30 UT
[email protected] on behalf of [email protected] wrote:
> However, regarding intransitive verbs *without* the
> imperative, we do have at least one canon example of using {-lu'} on them,
if
> I'm not mistaken:
There's really nothing so mysterious about this.
Quchlu'
Someone is happy.
> quSDaq ba'lu''a'? {from the Appendix) Is this seat taken?, lit. "Is it sat
> at the chair?"
> But this is a concept that doesn't work in English well, so this sentence
> does seem a little odd.
It works just fine in English. "Does one sit in the chair?"
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