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Re: KLBC - Imperatives vs questions




voragh:
> :     or
> :   {ponglIj 'oH nuq?} What is your name?
>
> Since "what" is the subject of the sentence, it has to be tagged with the
> subject marker {-'e'} in proper Klingon.  E.g.:

taD:
> Remember that when you use a "pronoun as to be" sentence like this, the 2nd
> noun has the noun suffix {-'e'} added:

thank you for clarifying that. i suspected i would need to use {-'e'}, but
there were no examples in the dictionary that were both the "to be"
construction and a question.

taD:
> The two nouns here would probably be better if you switched them:
> {nuq 'oH ponglIj'e'} "What is your name?", literally "What is it? - your
> name"

i got a little confused with the examples in TKD: i was looking at
{Duj ghoStaH nuq} "What is coming toward the ship?" and applied this to
the sentence i was *trying* to make. but now i see that it also says that
the question word should go in the position occupied by the answer. so now
i see how {nuq 'oH ponglIj'e'} is better than {ponglIj 'oH nuq'e'}. i
think i understand question forming better now.

yeygha'

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