tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 17 21:10:18 2001
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RE: KLBC: HoghwIj
ja' taD:
>Robert said:
>>
>> 'ej jIQaptaH 'e' vItaghta'.
>>
>{Qap} is used for "work" in the sense of functioning correctly. For example,
>{Qapbe' Hoqra'wIj} "My tricorder doesn't work (i.e., it's broken)". {vum}
>("work, toil") would probably be a better verb to use for your sentence
>here.
>
>Also, on page 66 of TKD, it says that the second verb of a
>sentence-as-object construction doesn't use an aspect suffix. So the second
>verb here would just be {vItagh} and not {vItaghta'}.
There's a verb suffix that would work well here: {-choH} "change".
jIvumchoHta' "I have started to work."
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh