tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 16 08:15:43 2001
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RE: purpose clause with -meH
Note that a verb with {-meH} can modify a noun as well as a verb. This is
typically something that you learn AFTER you learn that {-meH} verbs give
the purpose of the action of the main verb. Well, it also gives the purpose
of a noun. In this case, {HaDmeH paq} is quite valid as a noun phrase where
{HaDmeH} modifies {paq} rather than having {paq} be the subject of {HaDmeH}.
SarrIS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 7:58 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: purpose clause with -meH
>
>
> In a message dated 1/16/2001 04:01:10 Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> > That is, {HaDmeH paq} - "a
> > book-for-learning". So the whole sentence would be:
> > {HaDmeH paq munojqang 'Iv?} "Who's willing to lend me a
> book-for-learning?"
>
> i read {HaDmeH paq} as "in order that the book study
> him/her/it/them", (or,
> as in TKD: "in order for the book to study him/her/it/them") and
> it doesn't
> make very much sense to me that way. perhaps {paQDI'norgh paq}
> "a book of
> teachings"?
> lay'tel SIvten
>