tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 14 18:45:11 2000
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RE: wa? waq ?Atlanta? vengDaq jIjaH.
- From: "Stauffer, Tad E (staufte7)" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: wa? waq ?Atlanta? vengDaq jIjaH.
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:43:32 -0400
jatlh nejwI':
> wa' waq "Atlanta" vengDaq jIjaH. Sum gaStaHvIS jav jaj "SPiRaL"Daq
> juppu' vISuch.
>
Watch out for spelling - "one month from now" is {wa' waQ}.
{Sum} is a verb meaning "be near". For example,
{Sum yIHmey} "The tribbles are near"
So {Sum} doesn't work for "nearly, almost". Instead, there's the adverbial
{tlhoS} ("nearly, not quite, almost, virtually"), which appears in the KGT
words list. So your second sentence would be:
{tlhoS qaStaHvIS jav jaj, "SPiRaL"Daq juppu' vISuch.} "For nearly 6 days, I
visited my friends at SPiRaL."
> naDev "Laadan" Hol pab vIghojmoHjaj. 'ach "SPiRaL"Daq
> tlhIngan Hol mujatlhqangbogh vay'pu' vInej.
>
{-jaj} is used when expressing a wish for the future, such as "May we return
victorious!"
If you just want to say that you are going to do something in the future,
you can use the verb without {-jaj}:
{vIghojmoH} "I will teach them"
This can also mean "I taught them" and "I teach them", depending on context.
The sentence {pab vIghojmoH} is a bit of a problem. You want to say "I teach
them grammar", but "them" and "grammar" can't both be the object of
{ghojmoH} ("teach"). On page 7 of HolQeD Volume 9 Number 1, there are some
suggestions on how to reword this kind of sentence.
One way would be to split it into two sentences:
{naDev vIghojmoH} "I teach them here" or literally, "I make them learn here"
{"Laadan" Hol pab lughoj} "They learn the Laadan language's grammar"
batlh tlhIngan Hol lughojjaj!
- taD