tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 24 16:25:10 2002
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Re: Qu'wIjHom
Viktor Horak <[email protected]>:
>Qu'wIjHom
Suffix order:
-Hom #2 -wIj #4
{Qu'HomwIj} "my little task"
>Satlho' 'ISqu', DloraH Quvar je.
>DaH tlhIq'nu jIpong'egh.
Okay, A name is a name. But I would suggest you put the apostrophe behind the vocal: *tlhIqnu'*,
because an apostrophe between two consonants is just not pronouncable.
>tlha'bogh Hoghmey *mailing list* pIjHa jIHtaH.
{pIjHa'} (with an apostrophe) comes usually at the beginning of the phrase.
What's "following weeks"? I think you mean "during some weeks" or so.
For that, {qaStaHvIS} "while happening" is used, like in the phrase from TKW:
{qaStaHvIS wa' ram loSSaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD}
"Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man."
{qaStaHvIS Hoghmey puS...}
"during several weeks..."
For "mailing list", there are several translations that are used on thi list, like {*jabbI'ID ghom}
"data transmission group" and {*QIn tetlh} "message list".
That forms your main sentence "I am seldom on the mailinglist":
{pIjHa' tetlhDaq jIH}
The whole sentence:
{qaStaHvIS Hoghmey puS pIjHa' tetlhDaq jIH}
>wejmaH leS puqbe'wI' bogh jIQuch.
{puqbe'wI'} is the subject (the one that's born), so the verb preceeds it:
{bogh puqbe'wI'} "my daughter will be born"
You're happy, "because" your daughter will be born, you you should say that :-)
add {-mo'} "because" (#9):
{boghmo' puqbe'wI' jIQuch}
"I'm happy because my daughter will be born"
>jIghaqbe' wej.
If you mean {wej} as an adverb, it means "not yet", and as any adverb, it comes at the beginning of
the sentence (TKD 5.4):
{wej jIghaqbe')
"I don't yet not contribute"
> QaghmeywI' pIj HIlugh:
QaghmeywIj.
> mulugh qatlh, jupwI'.
qayachu'be'.
> tlhIngan Hol vIjatlh vIneH.
maj.
It's better you also add in english what you want to say, then it's easier to correct.
Quvar
Beginners' Grammarian
ghojwI'pu'wI' vISaH