tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 06 09:23:36 2001
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RE: KLBC: Qov qeqmeH mu'tlheghmey
- From: "Will Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Qov qeqmeH mu'tlheghmey
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 12:23:21 -0400
- Importance: Normal
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Not to address everything here, but one thing that beginners often do and
more experience speakers forget to notice is that verbs with {-meH} ALWAYS
PRECEED WHAT THEY MODIFY. Other Type 9 suffixes can preceed or follow the
main clause, but since a verb with {-meH} can modify either the main verb or
a noun, its position is a lot more important and less optional. It preceeds
what it modifies, so if you put it at the end of a sentence, you have made a
mistake.
yaj'a'?
SarrIS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stumpem [mailto:stumpem]On Behalf Of Michael A. Stumpe
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 10:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: KLBC: Qov qeqmeH mu'tlheghmey
>
...
> 'ach jIDajchugh, vaj lujlaw'pu' ngong. <HIja'> <ghobe'> ghap
> vIjatlhlaHbe' vIjangmeH. yapbe' ngong mIwmeywIj. vaj, mIwwIj
^^^^^^^^^
> vIlughmoHDI', jIngongnISqa'.
>
> [But if I test inconclusively, then the experiment has seemingly
> failed. I can't say one way or the other. My experiment's procedures
> are insufficient. So, as soon as I correct my procedures, I need to
> experiment again.]
>
> > ...
> quS'a'Qob bu', qa'rIl puqloD