tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 05 14:03:45 2000
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Re: How to make verb into a noun?
jIjatlh:
> <snip>
> Putting a prefix on a verb with /-ghach/ is even more marked.
>
> *jIQuchtaHghach = QuchtaHghachwIj
> *bIQuchtaHghach = QuchtaHghachlIj
I-am-continued happystate
You-are-continued happystate
That's probably more or less what a Klingon would hear for the ones on the
left.
> qay'taHghachwIj 'oHtaHbe' QuchtaHghachlIj'e'. ( I can feel the
grammarians
> cringe at this)
Your continued happiness is not continuously my continued problem.
But the sentence is not marked. It works.
> bIQuchchugh jISaHbe'. (I was tempted to tack a -qu' after the -be', but
they
> are same catagory suffixes)
To make it equivalent, you'd have to say /bIQuchtaHchugh jISaHtaHbe'./ That
/-taH/ is not trivial. It isn't just a placeholder.
SuStel
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