tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 13 12:05:46 2002
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re: grammAr check
naHQun wrote:
>Tomorrow we will bury the corpse
>
>at first I had it as
>
> lom mamol wa'leS
>
>but then my copy of TKD was returned to me, and I read pg. 179
>
> "DaHjaj nom Soppu' Today they ate quickly"
>
>so I changed it to
>
> wa'leS lom mamol
You were right to put {wa'leS} before the object-verb-subject (SVO) string,
however you're using the wrong verb prefix. {ma-} "we [do something]" is
used when there is no object. E.g.
wa'leS maSop; DaHjaj maSuv.
We'll eat tomorrow; today we fight.
Use the prefix {wI-} "we [do something to] him/her/it" when the verb takes
an object:
wa'leS qagh wISop!
Tomorrow we eat gakh!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons