tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 13 03:04:20 1998
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Comparatives and Superlatives
- From: "Eduardo Fonseca" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Comparatives and Superlatives
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:53:19 -0300
Greetings!
Unfortunatly I don't know enough english grammar to comprehend
all points I want to talk but I hope you can (with some effort) understand
and help the mistakes. I'm not sure about english, but in portuguese
we have 3 grades of Comparatives and 2 of Superlatives.
-{ Inferior: less + "Adjective" + than
Comparatives -{ Equality: as + "Adj." + as
-{ Superior: more + "Adj" + than
In TKD (p.70) we have only 1 formula to Comparatives:
A Q law' B Q puS:
la' jaq law' yaS jaq puS - The commander is bolder than officer
or "The commander is bold be many, the officer is bold be few".
But if I want to say: "The commander is less bold than the officer". ?
ja' jaq puS yaS jaq law' ???? Can I exchange the order of terms?
or (in current discution of equality comparatives) The commander is as bold
as the officer.
The same to superlatives:
{the most + Adj. + of
{Superior - { The best, the worst, biggest, etc.
- Relative
{Inferior - {the least + Adj. + of
Sup.
- Absolute -{Analitic{ very + Adj.
-{Sintetic { with the latin suffixes
In Superlative absolute the noun suffix -qu' solve the problems.
How can we use them in klingon?
Edy