tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 28 15:52:36 2000
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Grammar Highlight Each Day
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- Subject: Grammar Highlight Each Day
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:52:05 EST
Disclaimer: This set of highlights are intended only to point out parts of
the grammar, not to be comprehensive teaching tools.
Today we look at "descriptive verbs." In The Klingon Dictionary (TKD) all
these verbs are listed on the English side beginning with "be....."
Examples: Doq = be red, be orange
SuD = be blue, be green, be yellow
qIj = be black
chIS = be white
tIn = be big, be large
mach = be little, be small
As descriptive verbs, these verbs never take an object. One cannot "big
[something], for instance. (There is a way to make these intransitive verbs
transitive; that has nothing to do with this highlight.)
Klingon has two sets of verb pronominal prefixes, one indicating the verb has
an object, one indicating the verb does not have an object. The set of verb
pronominal prefixes which indicate no object is: jI-, bI-, (null), ma-, Su-.
jItIn = I am big
bItIn = you (singular) are big
tIn = he is big, she is big, it is big (see below)
matIn = we are big
SutIn = you (plural) are big
tIn = they are big
peHruS
P.S. jIropmo' qaStaHvIS wej jajmey ropyaH vISuchpu'. loQ colon*wIjDaq
cancer* tu' Qel. ghaytan qabqu'be'; ghaytan chemotherapy* vIHevnISbe'. 'ach
colon* tlhoy'Hom teypu' Qel. loQ 'oy'. Do' SIQlaH tlhIngan.