tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Oct 24 12:56:12 1999
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Imperatives with aspect
- From: "Patrick Masterson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Imperatives with aspect
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:55:59 PDT
I was wondering what the meaning of imperative verbs with aspect suffixes
would mean.
-pu' means an action is finished or completed, so tlhutlhpu' would mean "he
finished drinking" or "he completed (the act of) drinking".
Would yItlhutlhpu' mean "Finish drinking!"?
LIkewise: yItlhutlhta' "Finish drinking (on purpose)!" (or something along
those lines)
yItlhutlhtaH "Keep drinking!"
yItlhutlhlI' "Keep drinking! (but stop eventually)"
Would those be correct?
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