tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 26 02:16:13 2002
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Re: jIqeq (I practice)
Am 25.11.2002 19:56:59, schrieb Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:
>Unlike English, you can't make nouns out of verbs by just adding the noun
>suffixes to a verb. If you don't have the noun you need, you have to
>rethink the sentence a bit and phrase it using the verb, which we call
>"re-casting" here on the List. So instead of saying "for practice" using
>the noun, use the verb and try to say the same thing: {jIqeqmeH} "[in
>order] for [me to] practice, in order that I practice". Thus:
There is a noun {qeq} meaning "drill (military)"
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