tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 01 03:27:31 1999
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Re: KLBC
- From: "Eric Andeen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 03:29:19 -0700
- Importance: Normal
ghay'cha'. chovummoHbej.
jatlh pI'lo:
> burghwIj teb qagh = worms fill my stomach.
> would this work?
> My stomach is full of worms - qagh buy'mo' burghwIj.
ghobe'. I think what you want here is <qaghmo' buy' burghwIj>. You should
attach the <-mo'> to the noun or the verb that is causing the action.
> would I have to say? qagh vISopmo' buy' burghwIj.
This works even better.
> or would it have to be? qagh vISop 'e' buy' burghwIj.
<buy'> means "be full", so it does not make sense to give it an object.
<'e'> is a pronoun representing the previous sentence, and it acts as the
object of the verb that follows it. An example:
bISop 'e' vIlegh.
This is usually translated as "I see you are eating", but it is literally
much closer to: "You are eating. I see that".
> or: qagh vISopmo' 'e' buy' burghwIj.
Same deal.
> I'm just curious how to express more about the subject being
> in a certain state than something doing/causing something
> to the subject. all this talk of worms is making me hungry.
Klingon is very good at that. There's a whole class of verbs which describe
states, and if you just stick a subject after one of those verbs, you've got
it.
pagh
Beginners' Grammarian